Technical Debt in Practice by Neil Ernst - ISBN: 9780262542111
Paperback
Navigate, measure, and conquer technical debt across the entire software lifecycle.

Technical Debt in Practice

How to Find It and Fix It

  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    21 September 2021

Summary

Technical debt in software is incurred when developers take shortcuts and make ill-advised technical decisions in the initial phases of a project, only to be confronted with the need for costly and labor-intensive workarounds later. This book offers advice on how to avoid technical debt, how to locate its sources, and how to remove it. It focuses on the practical implications of technical debt for the entire software life cycle, with examples and case studies from companies that range from Bo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262542111
ISBN-10:0262542110
Author:Neil Ernst, Julian Delange
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:21 September 2021
Weight:368g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Neil Ernst

Neil Ernst is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Julien Delange is Staff Software Engineer at Twitter and Founder of Code Inspector, a technical debt platform analysis. Rick Kazman is Professor in the Department of Information Technology Management at the University of Hawaii and Visiting Researcher at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

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