num_pages: 232
description: Re-Engineering Legacy Software is an experience-driven guide to revitalizing inherited projects, covering refactoring, quality metrics, toolchain and workflow, continuous integration, infrastructure automation, and organizational culture. On the purely technical side, you'll learn techniques for introducing dependency injection for code modularity, quantitatively measuring quality, and automating infrastructure. On the strategic side, you'll develop practical processes for deciding whether to rewrite or refactor, team organization, and even convincing management that quality matters. Core topics include deciphering and modularizing awkward code structures, effectively integrating and automating tests, replacing an outdated build system, and infrastructure automation using tools like Vagrant and Ansible.
language: English
title: Re-Engineering Legacy Software
publisher: Manning