Your Code as a Crime Scene

Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He’s the CTO and founder of CodeScene, where he develops tools for software engineering intelligence. Adam is also the author of multiple technical books, including Lisp for the Web, Software Design X-Rays, Patterns in C, and the best-selling Your Code as a Crime Scene. Adam is also a software researcher who has spoken at TEDx and GOTO. His other interests include modern history, music, retro computing, and martial arts.

Adam Tornhill’s book Software Design X-Rays: https://pragprog.com/titles/atevol/software-design-x-rays/
Adam Tornhill’s book Your Code as a Crime Scene (2nd ed.) website: https://pragprog.com/titles/atcrime2/your-code-as-a-crime-scene-second-edition/

Papers:

Agile Thoughts gives thanks to software expert and listener Dale Stewart (LinkedIn profile) for contributing the below links to the papers that go with this series and the below videos.
Whitepaper: https://codescene.com/hubfs/web_docs/Business-impact-of-low-code-quality.pdf
Research paper:  https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374
Researched backed insights: https://codescene.com/resources/whitepapers
Other papers: https://codescene.com/resources

Videos:

Code, Crime, Complexity: Analyzing software with forensic …YouTube · TEDx Talks15 minutes, 48 secondsOct 22, 2014

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality • Adam …YouTube · GOTO Conferences35 minutes, 57 secondsApr 17, 2023

Listen to Adam in these episodes: