Epic Goal

Cleaning up accumulated technical debt throughout the ACM 2.13 / MCE 2.8 release.

Why is this important?

Addressing technical debt is crucial for maintaining the long-term health, stability, and sustainability of our product's code.

Scenarios

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Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Conduct a thorough assessment of the codebase to identify and prioritize areas of technical debt, including but not limited to legacy code, outdated dependencies, code smells, and inadequate testing coverage.
• [ ] Implement cleanup initiatives according to the established roadmap, focusing on high-priority technical debt items first. These initiatives may include refactoring legacy code, updating outdated dependencies, improving test coverage, and enforcing coding standards.

Dependencies (internal and external)

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Previous Work (Optional):

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Open questions:

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Done Checklist

• CI - CI is running, tests are automated and merged.
• Release Enablement <link to Feature Enablement Presentation>
• DEV - Upstream code and tests merged: <link to meaningful PR or GitHub
  Issue>
• DEV - Upstream documentation merged: <link to meaningful PR or GitHub
  Issue>
• DEV - Downstream build attached to advisory: <link to errata>
• QE - Test plans in Polarion: <link or reference to Polarion>
• QE - Automated tests merged: <link or reference to automated tests>
• DOC - Doc issue opened with a completed template. Separate doc issue
  opened for any deprecation, removal, or any current known
  issue/troubleshooting removal from the doc, if applicable.