I like _Working Effectively with Legacy Code_ by Michael Feathers. It's a collection of techniques for bootstrapping tests into an existing code base - carefull

I like _Working Effectively with Legacy Code_ by Michael Feathers. It's a collection of techniques for bootstrapping tests into an existing code base - carefully, incrementally restructuring the code to add enough tests to safely perform deeper structural changes. At the same time, it's ultimately a book about improving legacy codebases (testing is just a major technique), so it focuses on using testing when it's most useful. (Also, maybe it's just me, but a book that starts from, "Help! I just inherited a C++ project with ten years of rot and half the comments are in Norwegian! How do I even start adding tests to this without breaking it further?" seems a bit more practical than one that starts by applying unit tests to example code designed for convenient testing. It's seldom that easy.)