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Consider your software broken if

Consider your software broken if:

  • You're the only one to understand how it works
  • You can't remember what a function does just by reading its name
  • You're not using a version control system
  • You're not using continuous integration
  • You're not continuously monitoring the quality of your code
  • You have little or no unit tests
  • You have little or no integration tests
  • You don't use an issue tracker
  • You're not continuously monitoring the coverage of your code
  • Your code coverage is less than 99%
  • Your documentation if out-of-date
  • You spend less than 10% of active development time on refactoring
  • You have one line or more of bad-smelling code
  • You have one line or more of hacks
  • You don't have a clear release cycle
  • You don't set milestones and stick to them
  • You haven't worked on it during the last six months
  • You have no written documentation about how it works
  • You can't remember how it works after two weeks of vacation
  • You are the only developer
  • You are the only user
  • You don't use it
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