PODCAST

Synopsis

• NetConfUY
• Dropping into a brownfield application
• Rewrite vs. refactor
• Political factors
• Setting up a safety net
• What is correct: What the app does or what it should do?
• The challenge of limiting scope during refactoring
• The legacy catch-22: You need tests to refactor but you need to refactor before you can write tests
• Selling a refactoring to your client
• Identifying risk to your client
• The Boy Scout Rule: Leave the code better than you found it
• The refactoring rabbit hole
• Using metrics to determine where to focus
• Finding quick wins
• Strangler pattern to carve off pieces
• Ensuring the dev team is on board