by Michael Feathers
Feathers defines legacy code as 'code without tests' and provides a catalog of dependency-breaking techniques (seams, sprout methods, characterization tests) for safely getting untested code under test before changing it. Drawing on Fowler-style step-by-step refactorings, he gives practical recipes for taming real-world codebases where the fear of breaking things has frozen development.
In this collection, Working Effectively with Legacy Code references 3 other books.
It draws on Refactoring, The Pragmatic Programmer and The Mythical Man-Month.
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Feathers explicitly builds on Fowler's Refactoring catalog, using its vocabulary of Extract Method, Extract Interface, and mechanical refactorings as the basis for his dependency-breaking techniques.
Feathers cites Hunt and Thomas's Pragmatic Programmer in his discussion of decoupling, programming by contract, and the discipline of treating all code as subject to change.
Feathers references Brooks's Mythical Man-Month when discussing the accidental complexity that accumulates in large codebases and the communication overhead of working with legacy systems.
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