Scythe - Coverage in Production to Find Dead Code

A while back I wrote about what it takes to kill code. I won’t take up any time repeating why it’s a good idea to get rid of code that’s dead or low value. I think that anyone who’s spent time trying to understand or change some area of code only to find out that it’s never really used knows how frustrating it can be.

As often as this happens, we just tend to live with dead code.

It seems like it should be easy to find code that doesn’t execute, but aside from static analysis tools - which s...