Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Michael C. Feathers - Collection Robert C. Martin Series

434 pages, parution le 16/11/2004

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Résumé

Get more out of your legacy systems: more performance, functionality, reliability, and manageability

Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.

In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, untested legacy code bases. This book draws on material Michael created for his renowned Object Mentor seminars: techniques Michael has used in mentoring to help hundreds of developers, technical managers, and testers bring their legacy systems under control.

The topics covered include

Understanding the mechanics of software change: adding features, fixing bugs, improving design, optimizing performance
Getting legacy code into a test harness
Writing tests that protect you against introducing new problems
Techniques that can be used with any language or platform-with examples in Java, C++, C, and C#
Accurately identifying where code changes need to be made
Coping with legacy systems that aren't object-oriented
Handling applications that don't seem to have any structure

This book also includes a catalog of twenty-four dependency-breaking techniques that help you work with program elements in isolation and make safer changes.

L'auteur - Michael C. Feathers

MICHAEL C. FEATHERS works for Object Mentor, Inc., one of the world's top providers of mentoring, skill development, knowledge transfer, and leadership services in software development. He currently provides worldwide training and mentoring in Test-Driven Development (TDD), Refactoring, OO Design, Java, C#, C++, and Extreme Programming (XP). Michael is the original author of CppUnit, a C++ port of the JUnit testing framework, and FitCpp, a C++ port of the FIT integrated-testing framework. A member of ACM and IEEE, he has chaired CodeFest at three OOPSLA conferences.

Sommaire

Preface
Introduction
The mechanics of change
Changing software
Dependency breaking techniques
Appendix: Refactoring
Glossary

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Michael C. Feathers
Collection	Robert C. Martin Series
Parution	16/11/2004
Nb. de pages	434
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	852g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780131177055
ISBN13	978-0-13-117705-5