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Working Effectively with Legacy Code • Michael Feathers & Christian Clausen


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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Michael Feathers - Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” &  Chief Architect at Globant
Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code" & Founder of mist-cloud & Technical Agile Coach

RESOURCES
github.com/features/copilot
xp123.com/articles/procedural-and-declarative-tests
owasp.org/www-community/Fuzzing
youtu.be/4cVZvoFGJTU
investopedia.com/terms/p/paretoprinciple.asp
codescene.com
sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube

DESCRIPTION
Legacy code has been one of the problems that developers worldwide have been trying to tackle for a long time. But what is legacy code and how can you learn from writing tests that give you more insights into the system and the code?
Christian Clausen, author of “Five Lines of Code”, talks to Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively With Legacy Code”, about their shared passion for testing, refactoring, and solving real-life problems with the help of clean code.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design

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