Keynotes

Abstract

Today programmers do not develop applications from scratch, but they spend their time fixing, extending, modifying and enhancing existing applications. The biggest problem in their daily work is that with time maintenance mutates from structured programming to defensive programming: The code becomes too complex to be maintained. We put in code we know is stupid from an architectural point of view but it is the only solution that will hopefully work. Maintenance is more and more difficult and expensive. Our software accumulates technical debts. In this talk, you will see how you should improve your architecture and source code to prevent technical debt growing unrestricted. With the proper knowledge about well-structured architecture, refactorings for tangled code can quickly be found. Complex code can be eliminated, and maintenance costs will be reduced. Bio Carola Lilienthal studied computer science at the University of Hamburg from 1988 to 1995, and in 2008 she received her doctoral degree in computer science at the University of Hamburg (Supervising Professors: Christiane Floyd and Claus Lewerentz). Today, Dr. Carola Lilienthal is managing director of WPS Workplace Solutions GmbH and is responsible for the department of software architecture. Since 2003, Dr. Carola Lilienthal has been analyzing architecture in Java, C #, C ++, ABAP and PHP throughout Germany, and advising development teams on how to improve the longevity of their software systems. In 2015, she summarized her experiences from over a hundred analyzes in the book Long-living software architectures. She is particularly interested in the education of software architects, which is why she is an active member of iSAQB, the International Software Architecture Quality Board e.V., and regularly disseminates her knowledge at conferences, in articles and training courses.