Boy Scout Rule

In this article at OpenGenus, we will learn about Boy Scout Rule and why its application is vital for effective technical debt management.

As a code base grows over time, the quality of the underlying source code of a system tends to degrade, accumulating technical debt. The Boy Scout Rule in the coding world, "Always leave the code better than you found it" could largely decrease the technical debt. It's that simple, but why do many engineers don't do it?

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