Conquering Large Legacy Software
Conquering Large Legacy Software
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Why this book?
- About this book
- About the author
- Credits
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Introduction
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Part One: Legacy Redux
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Chapter 1: You can conquer large legacy software
- What is legacy software?
- What does conquered software look like?
- Why measurement is essential
- Fear is the enemy, communication is your weapon
- Prerequisites
- In Summary
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Chapter 2: Is bankruptcy an option?
- Rewrite or improve?
- Evaluation
- Rewrite AND improve?
- In Summary
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Chapter 3: Know your roots
- Holding a legacy retrospective
- In Summary
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Chapter 4: Technical debt
- Why is it difficult to address technical debt?
- Internal and External Quality
- Why have the distinction?
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Chapter 5: Legacy knowledge
- Knowledge (loss) as a function of time
- If this is normal, why should you care?
- How to improve knowledge in a legacy system
- In Summary
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Chapter 1: You can conquer large legacy software
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Part Two: Legacy Software - Improving Quality
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- Code vs. Design vs. Architecture
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Chapter 6: Legacy Code
- The carrying cost of code
- The business case
- How much code do you have?
- How does your code change?
- How much code can you delete?
- How many defects are hiding in your code?
- In summary
- Chapter 7: Legacy Design - Under Construction
- Chapter 8: Legacy Architecture - Under Construction
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Part Three: Legacy Process - Improving development efficiency
- Chapter 9: Legacy Tools - Under construction
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Chapter 10: Legacy Testing
- Types of testing
- Revisiting the testing pyramid
- Where should I start?
- In summary
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