Containing Low-Quality Code Degeneration

How to Fix “Broken Windows” and Keep Your Code Shiny

Fabio Veronese
Geek Culture
Published in
5 min readMay 14, 2021

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Photo by Rafał Malinowski on Unsplash

Low-quality code is a sneaky enemy. It looks not harmful as such. Awfully written programs may comply with requirements. They just are damn hard to debug and maintain, that’s the issue.

Some dynamics make it even riskier and a possible source of other problems. To minimize such…

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Fabio Veronese
Geek Culture

Team Leader, Software Engineer, Bioengineering MSc and Information Engineering PhD. Former researcher, observing reality and imagining future.