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Summary Adam Tornhill introduces an approach with the potential to change how we view software systems, offering an overview of techniques, based on software evolution and findings from various fields within psychology, that help uncover both problematic code and the social dimension of the teams that build software. He illustrates each point with a case study from a real-world codebase.

Bio Adam Tornhill is the founder and CTO of Empear, where he designs tools for software analysis. He’s also the author of Your Code as a Crime Scene, has written the popular Lisp for the Web tutorial, and self-published a book on patterns in C.

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