Clean Code: How we adopted it and how you can do it too
As we’ve already discussed multiple times – TDD, good application architecture and clean code are nice things to have in your company.
Adopting TDD, code reviews and coding standards in your company may be quite difficult. We focused earlier on the technical side of the question. But besides the technical factor, there is also a “human” factor and Head of Backend Engineering at Wix is going to tell us how Wix had adopted all these principles and started to write better code and deliver it faster.
What do you do when you know your codebase is dirty, and it’s your in-house framework?
This happened to us at Wix. As we debated how to tackle our massive technical debt, we were struck by a wonderful realization: the process of transforming the old framework into something new and shiny is a golden opportunity to improve coding practices throughout the organization.
We steered clear of specs and coding standards in favor of a platform of debating, reviewing and improving code.
In this talk I’ll walk you through the process we went through, sharing the story of how we used this ongoing refactoring effort to drive code quality improvements throughout Wix R&D.
