2022 Articles
✦ July
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 9 Summary
Back at it again, this week we will cover chapter 9 of the book titled "I can't
Book Summaries
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✦ June
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 8 Summary
In legacy code, one of the most important considerations is that we don't have
tests around much of
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✦ June
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 7 Summary
How long does it take for you to make a change?
If I ask this to 100 different people, I
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✦ May
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 6 Summary
You might ask me?
Is doing all this additional work worth it?
Do I need to test all my code?
2022 Articles
✦ April
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapters 4 and 5 Summary
When people first start writing tests, they will notice how horrible code is
structured for them.
In general, this is
2022 Articles
✦ April
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 3 Summary
In the last chapter, we covered the refactoring process.
We declared that the most important step in refactoring is testing.
2022 Articles
✦ March
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 2 Summary
In this chapter, we will cover the different ways changes happen in our system.
In general, there are two ways:
2022 Articles
✦ March
Working Effectively with Legacy Code: Chapter 1 Summary
> “Legacy Code is code without tests”
That's pretty much the premise of the whole book.
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