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Brown-bag session: refactoring legacy code

Jul 1, 2015 - 1 minute read - Comments - refactoringlegacy-codetrainingbrown-bag-sessionclientlegacyslidespresentation

Today I have done a brown bag session about refactoring legacy code. It includes:

  • legacy code definition. There is no agreement about this in the team.
  • the legacy code change algorithm (source is Feathers, Working effectively with legacy code). Plus an example about it.
  • working with legacy code
  • experience with it.

The slides are available here (PDF format)

We also did a practical session, whose experience report is here

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