Don't Characterize the Whole Messy Repo: Triage Files by Churn, Complexity, and Risk First
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Most characterization-testing effort is wasted. You write probes for files nobody touches. You protect code that will be deleted next quarter. Triage first. Test only the files that deserve protection. This article gives you a 20-line script that scores every file in a messy repo. It shows which fi…
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- 2026-08-27 13:16 · DEV Community — AI
Don't Characterize the Whole Messy Repo: Triage Files by Churn, Complexity, and Risk First