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Adam Tornhill: Your Code as a Crime Scene - Episode 194
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By Jeffrey Palermo. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He's the founder of CodeScene where he designs tools for software analysis. He’s also the author of Software Design X-Rays, the best-selling book Your Code as a Crime Scene, Lisp for the Web, and Patterns in C. Adam’s other interests include modern history, music, and martial arts.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:10] Adam talks about how he got his start in code metrics 25 years ago and why he’s discovered that it’s so hard to write good code.
[3:48] What are the other book ideas Adam has to add to his existing four?
[4:53] What motivated Adam to write Your Code as a Crime Scene and what is the premise?
[9:02] When assembling the data, relevance, as well as quality, are both important.
[10:29] Cyclomatic complexity is an old metric, as are many others, that is not quite tangible or relevant.
[11:58] Why Adam prefers to look at code health vs. code quality.
[13:26] The process is slightly different when looking at code health for existing code vs. writing new code.
[15:23] How does CodeScene aid in the pull request process?
[18:31] CodeScene integrates with your version control repository and work tracking tools to find where bugs were introduced.
[22:22] Is CodeScene meant to be a standalone tool or can it work alongside many of the other tools on the market?
[24:57] Adam’s rules of thumb for those getting started in software systems.
[28:12] Why Adam’s preferred method of delivering software architecture has changed over the years.
[30:36] What are the steps for implementing CodeScene into a codebase?
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
CodeScene — Free Community Edition
“Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality”
Want to Learn More?
Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
Quotes:
- “Software development and software code, in particular, are very abstract. There’s no way I can really take a software system and pull it out and turn it around and inspect it for flaws.” — Adam [6:34]
- “What I’m most interested in is trends; so are we moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?” — Adam [15:14]
- “My experience, from working with all of these companies, is that pull requests and code reviews, in general, are extremely valuable… but they also tend to become a bottleneck in practice.” — Adam [16:10]
- “A surprise is simply one of the most expensive things you can put into a software architecture.” — Adam [30:15]
- “While these mechanics are simple, information is only good when acted upon.” — Adam [31:20]
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