Embrace the Past: How SW Evolution Lets You Understand Large Codebases • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2016

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Channel: GOTO Conferences · 2016 · Science & Technology

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This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2016
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Adam Tornhill - Founder and CTO at Empear @adamtornhill2546 

ABSTRACT
To understand large software systems we need to look beyond the current structure of the code. We need to understand both how the system evolves and how the people building it collaborate. In this session you'll learn to mine social information such as communication paths [...]

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