Re-engineering legacy software / Chris Birchall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birchall, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software reengineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Shelter Island, New York : Manning, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Summary As a developer, you may inherit projects built on existing codebases with design patterns, usage assumptions, infrastructure, and tooling from another time and another team. Fortunately, there are ways to breathe new life into legacy projects so you can maintain, improve, and scale them without fighting their limitations. About the Book Re-Engineering Legacy Software is an experience-driven guide to revitalizing inherited projects. It covers refactoring, quality metrics, toolchain and workflow, continuous integration, infrastructure automation, and organizational culture. You’ll learn techniques for introducing dependency injection for code modularity, quantitatively measuring quality, and automating infrastructure. You’ll also develop practical processes for deciding whether to rewrite or refactor, organizing teams, and convincing management that quality matters. Core topics include deciphering and modularizing awkward code structures, integrating and automating tests, replacing outdated build systems, and using tools like Vagrant and Ansible for infrastructure automation. What's Inside Refactoring legacy codebases Continuous inspection and integration Automating legacy infrastructure New tests for old code Modularizing monolithic projects About the Reader This book is written for developers and team leads comfortable with an OO language like Java or C#. About the Author Chris Birchall is a senior developer at the Guardian in London, working on the back-end services that power the website.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

Part 1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Understanding the challenges of legacy projects

Chapter 2. Finding your starting point

Part 2. Refactoring to improve the codebase

Chapter 3. Preparing to refactor

Chapter 4. Refactoring

Chapter 5. Re-architecting

Chapter 6. The Big Rewrite

Part 3. Beyond refactoring-improving project workflow and infrastructure

Chapter 7. Automating the development environment

Chapter 8. Extending automation to test, staging, and production environments

Chapter 9. Modernizing the development, building, and deployment of legacy software

Chapter 10. Stop writing legacy code!

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781638353324

1638353328

9781617292507

1617292508

OCLC:

951425122