Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn to:

• “Refactoring”: restructuring of code to improve structure .
• Some common code examples for “smells” (anti-patterns).
• “Technical Debt”: generalization covering all internal problems in a codebase

Lecture Slides:

• Technical Debt Slides PDF, PPT

Resources

• Book: Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code
• Book: Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development
• Software Engineering at Google - Chapter 15 (Deprecation)
• Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice (IEEE Software artice from 2012)