In this episode, we discuss:

• What is ‘zombie code’, aka “dead code” (1:07)
• Why is zombie code hard to find? (3:00)
• Why can’t we just ignore zombie code? (4:45)
• How does zombie code accumulate? (7:16)
• Zombie code gets even more complex…(8:31)
• Is zombie code a security threat? (11:30)
• Can you find zombie code manually, or is AI needed? (14:09)
• What does it look like to manually search for zombie code? (17:11)
• Best practices to handling zombie code (21:30)

For more information, check out these resources:

• vFunction Assessment Hub - start assessing your technical debt now
• Whitepaper: Technical Debt – A Guide for Frustrated Software Architects and CIOs
• Analyst eBook – Raiders of the Lost Apps – An Adventurer’s Guidebook for Uncovering Technical Debt through Modernization