[Mifos-developer] Working Effectively With Legacy Code (book recommendation)

[Adam F. <ad...@po...>]

Folks,

I'm almost done reading this book and I recommend it highly:

Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael Feathers
http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin/dp/0131177052

It's very relevant to the Mifos codebase - it's specifically about how
to take legacy software - difficult-to-understand software without
tests - and make it better incrementally. It has a lot of relevant
advice on techniques to get classes and methods under test and
refactoring patterns.

Reading it gave me inspiration that if we make the code we work on a
little better each time we touch it, over time we will have a great
application that is reliable, well-tested, flexible, and easy to
change.

-adam
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Adam Feuer <adamf at pobox dot com>