Gil Zilberfeld explains how technical debt is confusing, and instead using thermodynamics to explaining the benefits of clean code and refactoring

Technical Debt Considered Harmful, Part I

Goodheart’s Law states that when a metric becomes a goal, it is no longer a good metric. I don’t know when technical debt became a metric. But SonarQube calculates and reports it as such. If this calculation is correct (you… Continue Reading…

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