Re-Engineering Legacy Software
ISBN: 9789386052896
232 pages

Description
This book is ambitious in scope, setting itself the aim of teaching you everything you need to do in order to transform a neglected legacy codebase into a maintainable, well-functioning piece of software that can provide value to your organization. Covering absolutely everything in a single book is, of course, an unachievable goal, but Author has attempted to do so by approaching the problem of legacy software from a number of different angles. The book covers a wide range of technologies and tools, including Jenkins, FindBugs, PMD, Kibana, Gradle, Vagrant, Ansible, and Fabric.
Part 1: Getting Started
- Understanding the challenges of legacy projects
- Finding your starting point
Part 2: Refactoring to Improve The Codebase
- Preparing to refactor
- Refactoring
- Re-architecting
- The Big Rewrite
Part 3: Beyond Refactoring—Improving Project Workflow and Infrastructure
- Automating the development environment
- Extending automation to test, staging, and production environments
- Modernizing the development, building, and deployment of legacy software
- Stop writing legacy code!