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Nicolas Carlo
Change Messy Software Without Breaking It.
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Fake it until you automate it
A pragmatic way for you to start automating deployments of a Legacy system.
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Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase
When a codebase is large and complex, it's risky to big changes. Here's a structured way to approach
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The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
This book is a reference. Here's my summary of its salient points so you understand why it's so reco
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Adding tests when you don't have time to
Here's a recipe you can follow when you want to add tests on Legacy Code, but you don't have much ti