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Legacy Code is Fear @Swanseacon 08 09 2015
My talk "Legacy Code is Fear" at Swansea Conference http://swancon.co.uk in 2015
Legacy Code is Fear @Swanseacon 08 09 2015
- 1. Legacy Code isFear www.mozaicworks.com
- 2. Me Adi Bolboacă Programmer Organizational &Technical Trainer & Coach www.mozaicworks.com
- 3. Legacy code scenario Currentsituation vs Better situation Not knowing what the actual code does Vs Gradually understanding the code and changing it to the minimum www.mozaicworks.com
- 4. Legacy code scenario Reasonswhy to change existing code: Fix a bug Add a feature Have automated tests for the system core www.mozaicworks.com
- 5. Legacy code scenario Reasonswhy not to change existing code: It looks ugly I would like to see nicer code I want to update to newest framework ... www.mozaicworks.com
- 6. Current situation You needto add some features to an existing old projectwww.mozaicworks.com
- 7. Current situation They tellyou that you have a very short time to do it www.mozaicworks.com
- 8. Current situation You areafraid to change the system www.mozaicworks.com
- 9. Current situation The timefeels waaaaay to short www.mozaicworks.com
- 10. Current situation And youtell your manager: I cannot do it www.mozaicworks.com
- 11. Current situation But themanager says... www.mozaicworks.com
- 12. Current situation It takesdouble the time you said www.mozaicworks.com
- 13. Current situation Your companyloses money. Your customer loses money. www.mozaicworks.com
- 14. Current situation Everyone isstressed www.mozaicworks.com
- 15. Better situation Someone signsa contract to add some features to an existing old project www.mozaicworks.com
- 16. Better situation Your teamstarts writing characterization tests to understand the change www.mozaicworks.com
- 17. Better situation Your teamwrites end-to-end tests to understand the external dependencies www.mozaicworks.com
- 18. Better situation Your teamsplits the end-to-end tests into integration tests and unit tests www.mozaicworks.com
- 19. Better situation Your teamstarts adding more unit tests around the area that needs to be modified www.mozaicworks.com
- 20. Better situation Every memberof the team is using the refactoring skills to improve the design www.mozaicworks.com
- 21. Better situation Your teamadds the new feature. It is fully test automated. www.mozaicworks.com
- 22. Better situation Your testersmake the final exploratory and manual tests www.mozaicworks.com
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- 24. Better situation The teamdelivers on time. www.mozaicworks.com
- 25. Better situation Your companywins money and respect from your customer. Your customer wins money and has trust in you. www.mozaicworks.com
- 26. The problem: Legacycode is fear Our unknowns are making us afraid Automating tests minimizes the unknowns By automating tests we can increase confidence www.mozaicworks.com
- 27. Very nice But howto do this? www.mozaicworks.com
- 28. Find the knownunknowns of the team Talk with the team Find what they do not know: domain knowledge, programming languages, unit testing, acceptance testing, frameworks, etc www.mozaicworks.com
- 29. Make small scaleexperiments Use a smaller problem at first Learn how to write charaterization tests for that problem Use coding dojos and mob programming to practice together www.mozaicworks.com
- 30. The littany againstfear I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.... only I will remain Dune by Frank Herbert www.mozaicworks.com
- 31. Solve the legacycode fear: invest Invest in the future business agility of your company www.mozaicworks.com
- 32. Solve the legacycode fear: learn Find the unknowns of the team Make a medium-term learning program Make small scale experiments Learn Extend to bigger scale experiments Learn Do a small change request in production Learn www.mozaicworks.com
- 33. What's next? Read theWorking Effectively with Legacy code book by Michael Feathers Find a good trainer to help the team learn Build learning program with team&trainer Learn from each experience Check blog.adrianbolboaca.ro www.mozaicworks.com
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- 35. Thank you! Check mywork on blog.adrianbolboaca.ro (articles and code casts) www.mozaicworks.com See the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/adibolb
- 36. Extend your mentoring& training capacity Accelerate learning through communities of practice Grow your functional leaders and top talents http://www.mozaicworks.com adrian.bolboaca@mozaicworks.com @adibolb
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