The term “Technical Debt” is used to describe the gap between the current state of a software code base, and its “ideal” form if it were redesigned, refactored and repaired to represent best practice in every respect.

Technical Debt is present in the vast majority of software systems as no implementation will ever be perfect, and it accumulates over time as changes and additions are made to a system which was never designed to support those changes.

The symptoms of technical debt include:

• Deteriorating reliability
• Changes and fixes become increasingly difficult and time-consuming
• Avoiding making changes because of the consequences
• Starting to question whether to invest further in the software or rewrite/replace it

There are a number of software vendors who offer solutions for measuring technical debt, and a number of widely adopted analysis tools that can help to find bugs in existing code bases. However, few of these tools have any capability in measuring or identifying concurrency problems.

Concurrency is a common source of technical debt as bugs arise due to the difficulty in coding correctly, and the difficulty of testing and even of reproducing known bugs makes them hard to fix.

This is where ThreadSafe can help.  By using deep analysis technology ThreadSafe can find these insidious bugs quickly and efficiently, even in complex code bases that have high levels of technical debt.  This helps to eradicate key bugs that would otherwise be hard to find. Learn more about ThreadSafe.