Code Maintenance/Refactoring Challenges

As with most problems in business, the challenge with maintaining code is to minimize cost and maximize benefit over some reasonable amount of time. For software maintenance, costs and benefits largely revolve around two things: the quantity and quality of both old and new code.

Quantity

SonarQube suggests our organization maintain at least 80 million lines of code. That’s a lot, especially if we stay current with security patches and rapid library upgrades.