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Michael Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is a great book that I would recommend for such situations.
by yawz 13y ago
Michael Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is a great book that I would recommend for such situations.
- osivertsson 13y agoThis really is an excellent book! It has helped me keep my sanity when working on large legacy codebases. Highly recommended.
- InformalRelief 13y agoLooks interesting. Is this useful if you work with relatively new code (no Cobol lurking in dark corners)?
- shoo 13y agoIn the book, Feathers defines legacy code as code without tests. So it's not really about old languages or old code. It's pretty easy to write (or inherit) new, difficult to test code, with no tests, in whatever language you please.