Michael Feathers: Looking Back at Working Effectively with Legacy Code
The InfoQ Podcast15 Maalis 2021

Michael Feathers: Looking Back at Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Several years ago, today's guest Michael Feathers published a book called Working Effectively with Legacy Code. This book introduced ways of wrangling large codebases. In the book, Feather's discussed leveraging unit tests to introduce--not only a validation of correctness but also-- documentation on a system's operation, ways to decouple/modularize monolithic code, and 24 different techniques to introduce change safely. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz and Michael Feathers go back and review the book. The two spend some time reviewing key concepts from the book and then discuss how the techniques can be applied today. The two wrap with a discussion on what might change in a new version of the book. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qREZrL Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - March 16, 2021 - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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