Origins of technical debt

In a previous article, we talked about what technical debt is and its consequences on our software. Although its repercussions are the same for most projects, the origin of technical debt can be caused by many factors, let’s talk about some of them:

If the team does not have the technical knowledge to write decent code, it will not be able to meet the project requirements, probably creating a product with spaghetti code or some code smell.

When customer requirements are high, priorities focus on finances and rapid development at the expense of code quality

if it is necessary to make a change suddenly, for emergency or convenience, it is usually programmed without fully testing the code.

Tests are safeguards that guarantee the integrity and quality of a good code, the lack of them can cause bugs and errors to sneak into the source code which generates deficiencies in the project and potential failures in the processes.

When the development process happens without proper documentation of changes, additions, or code reductions, it makes the interaction between team members inefficient and also slows down the introduction of new members to the project.

Applications should have a planning time before the first line of code, in order to have a consistent structure, naming conventions, nomenclature, and coding guidelines. When this is not taken into account, each person is free to program in their own way, or the way they find on the internet, which commonly results in spaghetti code.

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