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by wfrew 1487 days ago
Really you should have those tests upfront. After that noone should be scared of changing any part of the codebase. Let alone 'never' changing stuff.

Releasing rewrites / redesigns behind a feature flag, with a couple of strategic if statements is usually good enough. Noone cares that you had to change code outside of your interface for a release or two.