Support/ maintenance travails - Why and how to audit legacy sites
As a Technical Architect in Continous Delivery, I work mainly with support/ maintenance offerings. Taking an existing site over from another team (internal OR external) is often a very daunting task. Thats where Site Audits come into the picture. Some questions which site audits answer are:
- How much is the code "hacked" - probably the most important question for all developers
- Have the best practices been followed?
- Is the server capable of handling the site?
- Top level listing of technical debts
- and many more such questions....
In this session, I will talk about the importance of site audits, the timing of site audits and also some tools and techniques which need to be used when auditing a site.
About the speaker -
Educational qualifications make Suchi a "Manager" in Finance and Marketing, but her 18+ years of experience has mostly been in the world of IT. She started off with PHP in the year 2000 when OOPS was something people said when they made a mistake and not necessarily in "computer" terms. She has a passion for development, and just can not keep her hands off of the code - even when needed. For the past 5 years, she has been handling projects in managerial capacity as well.