Summary
In this chapter, we saw how code metrics and code analysis tools can help you spot problem areas in your code, follow best practices, and prioritize areas of technical debt. This will help you understand the issues you and your team struggle with. Once you know the areas you struggle with, you can focus on remediating them going forward. This also helps you prioritize areas of technical debt and communicate those areas to others.
These built-in analyzers are incredibly handy and it turns out you can build some on your own. Over the next two chapters, we’ll do just that as we build our own code analyzer that can detect and automatically fix issues.
