Code Health

Definitions

1. The overall maintainability and fitness of a codebase, considering readability, test coverage, dependency structure, duplication, and how costly future changes are likely to be. Code health is not the same as code merely working today; it reflects how safely and efficiently the code can keep evolving.

   In plain English: The overall maintainability and condition of a codebase.

   Example: "Velocity slowed because code health had eroded to the point where every small change required debugging three unrelated side effects."

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