Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)

Table of Contents:

Preface.

Introduction.

I. THE MECHANICS OF CHANGE.

  1. Changing Software.

  2. Working with Feedback.

  3. Sensing and Separation.

  4. The Seam Model.

  5. Tools.

II. CHANGING SOFTWARE.

  6. I Don’t Have Much Time and I Have To Change It.

  7. It Takes Forever To Make a Change.

  8. How Do I Add a Feature?

  9. I Can’t Get This Class into a Test Harness.

10. I Can’t Run This Method into a Test Harness.

11. I Need to Make a Change.   What Methods Should I Test?

12. I Need to Make Many Changes In One Area Do I Have To Break.

13. I Need To Make a Change but I Don’t Know What Tests To Write.

14. Dependencies on Libraries Are Killing Me.

15. My Application Is All API Calls.

16. I Don’t Understand the Code Well Enough To Change It.

17. My Application Has No Structure.

18. My Test Code Is in the Way.

19. My Project Is Not Object-Oriented.   How Do I Make Safe Changes?

20. This Class Is Too Big and I Don’t Want It to Get Any Bigger.

21. I’m Changing The Same Code All Over the Place.

22. I Need To Change a Monster Method and I Can’t Write Tests for It.

23. How Do I Know That I’m Not Breaking Anything?

24. We Feel Overwhelmed. It Isn’t Going To Get Any Better.

III. DEPENDENCY BREAKING TECHNIQUES.

25. Dependency Breaking Techniques.

Appendix: Refactoring.

Glossary.