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Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Michael C. Feathers

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1. Preface 2. Introduction 3. Part I: The Mechanics of Change 4. Chapter 1: Changing Software 5. Chapter 2: Working with Feedback 6. Chapter 3: Sensing and Separation 7. Chapter 4: The Seam Model 8. Chapter 5: Tools 9. Part II: Changing Software 10. Chapter 6: I Don't Have Much Time and I Have to Change It 11. Chapter 7: It Takes Forever to Make a Change 12. Chapter 8: How Do I Add a Feature? 13. Chapter 9: I Can't Get This Class into a Test Harness 14. Chapter 10: I Can't Run This Method in a Test Harness 15. Chapter 11: I Need to Make a Change. What Methods Should I Test? 16. Chapter 12: I Need to Make Many Changes in One Area. Do I Have to Break Dependencies for All the Classes Involved? 17. Chapter 13: I Need to Make a Change, but I Don't Know What Tests to Write 18. Chapter 14: Dependencies on Libraries Are Killing Me 19. Chapter 15: My Application Is All API Calls 20. Chapter 16: I Don’t Understand the Code Well Enough to Change It 21. Chapter 17: My Application Has No Structure 22. Chapter 18: My Test Code Is in the Way 23. Chapter 19: My Project Is Not Object Oriented. How Do I Make Safe Changes? 24. Chapter 20: This Class Is Too Big and I Don't Want It to Get Any Bigger 25. Chapter 21: I'm Changing the Same Code All Over the Place 26. Chapter 22: I Need to Change a Monster Method and I Can't Write Tests for It 27. Chapter 23: How Do I Know That I'm Not Breaking Anything? 28. Chapter 24: We Feel Overwhelmed. It Isn't Going to Get Any Better 29. Part III: Dependency-Breaking Techniques 30. Chapter 25: Dependency-Breaking Techniques 31. Appendix: Refactoring 32. Glossary

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Part II: Changing Software

Chapter 5: Tools Chapter 6: I Don't Have Much Time and I Have to Change It