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by yawz 4511 days ago
Michael Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is a great book that I would recommend for such situations.
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InformalRelief 4511 days ago
Looks interesting. Is this useful if you work with relatively new code (no Cobol lurking in dark corners)?
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shoo 4511 days ago
In 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.

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osivertsson 4511 days ago
This really is an excellent book! It has helped me keep my sanity when working on large legacy codebases. Highly recommended.
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