Roundup 09 - Managing Technical Debt

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO
* Technical Debt + http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

• Paying down technical debt
• http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/pay-down-your-technical-debt

• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001230.html

• Evaluating your technical debt

• http://sonar.codehaus.org/evaluate-your-technical-debt-with-sonar/

• http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game+plugin

• Technical Debt Ledger

• http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/06/27/ledger-for-my-technical-debt

• Refactoring

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring
• http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsRefactoring

• http://www.refactoring.com/

• Code Reviews

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review
• http://www.review-board.org/

• http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/

• Continuous Integration

• http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

• Finding copied and pasted code

• http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html

• Finding overly complex code

• http://www.crap4j.org/

• Finding bugs

• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• Github

• http://github.com/?gclid=CNe9jMmgmZwCFRBbagodcGxEcw

• Subversion blame and praise

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.ref.svn.c.blame.html

• Fisheye

• http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/

• IBM Rational Jazz

• http://jazz.net/

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