Optimize your Software System Now

Many non-trivial software systems sooner or later end up as the dreaded big ball of mud, i.e. a highly coupled and tangled mess of classes that tend to eat up your whole codebase. While this big ball of mud is not the end of your project it turns every change into a risky endeavor. Developer productivity decreases significantly because they need to spend a lot of time reading code while trying to understand how different parts of the system interact with each other.

In this 60 minute webinar, we will first analyze why the big ball of mud is the expected outcome for many projects - in fact, if you do nothing special to stop it from happening you will get it “for free”. Then we will look at proven and successful strategies to avoid this unpleasant outcome. One of those strategies is the use of a metric-based feedback loop, another is the use of enforceable architectural models. Both strategies require tools, so we will also look at free and commercial tools to address this problem.