Tag Archives: legacy code

Please Don’t Share Your Bodily Fluids With the Rest of the System

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Tim King

Have you ever been here? Refactoring old code, seeing new code that partially de-factors it, and taking out my frustrations in code comments. The old comment for a struct declaration: // This structure will be generated // and stay with … Continue reading →

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Refactoring the Monster

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Tim King

This is a story about my first software management success. It’s also a story about my first software management failure. It was a success, because the work got completed, and without any nasty surprises. It was a failure, because I … Continue reading →

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Manual Test-First

Posted on April 10, 2006 by Tim King

Working on a team that’s not yet onto the value of unit testing, I frequently encounter what Michael Feathers calls “legacy code.” It is not unit-tested and can’t be. That doesn’t mean I need to forget test-first.

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Honestly

Posted on September 3, 2005 by Tim King

(Note: This is a post from my online journal, imported into this blog because it tells the story of a real software project I worked on. Who says software developers don’t have war stories? -TimK) I know why good people … Continue reading →

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