From the course: Agile Software Development: Dealing with Legacy Code and Technical Debt
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Monitor code quality
From the course: Agile Software Development: Dealing with Legacy Code and Technical Debt
Monitor code quality
- [Instructor] When you're handed an existing project, the amount of work in front of you can be beyond overwhelming. There was so much clean-up work that needs to be done. Not only is it hard to figure out where to start, it can be very difficult to determine whether or not your efforts have made anything better. There are many different code quality tools that can help you figure out where to direct your efforts, and there are other tools that can help you determine if you're making progress over time. The bulk of these are static analysis tools. The different ones are good at specific tasks. There are linters, style cops, code coverage analyzers, tools that compute how long it's going to take to clean up technical debt, and some that alert you about security vulnerabilities in your dependencies. Here in the library, you can take a look at my tools-focused course on code quality to learn about some of the different tools…
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