http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sun, 19 May 2013 03:58:12 -0400 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 The standard link to Joel's "Things You Should Never Do" is missing:

...]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:03:26 -0400 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:03:26 -0400 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:03:26 -0400 Sep 27, 2011 Juergen Weber 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 It needs to be evaulated on a case by case basis. Re-write/Re-factor decision is really based on business needs, architecural needs, ROI, level of effort estimates etc. But as a good coding practice, code needs to be re-factored as often as...]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:10:05 -0400 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:10:05 -0400 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:10:05 -0400 Sep 23, 2011 Uma Ediga 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 And don't forget that having good test coverage with regression tests is very helpful with both refactoring and rewriting. If your legacy code is not good for unit tests then functional (black box) tests may help

 

]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:29:03 -0400 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:29:03 -0400 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:29:03 -0400 Sep 23, 2011 Bulgar Sadykov 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 There's actually a fourth reason to refactor rather than rewrite: the legacy codebase almost always contains hidden functionality (features) that can't be found in the documentation. Doing a rewrite will loose these features and will be difficult to...]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:26:42 -0400 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:26:42 -0400 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:26:42 -0400 Sep 22, 2011 Peter van den Berkmortel 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 personally I had several good experiences in taking the rewrite approach. Sure, in two years your code won't be so nice as it was at the beginning, but it is absolutely not the reason to throw away this option. If you stuck with the legacy code, it...]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:02:30 -0400 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:02:30 -0400 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:02:30 -0400 Sep 21, 2011 Mike J 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 What the article fails to explore is that most of the (valid) rewrites of systems or parts of systems are based on incorrect arcitectural decisions taken early on in the original development project. While being neither evil or stupid, people...]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:19:42 -0400 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:19:42 -0400 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:19:42 -0400 Sep 21, 2011 pellep 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 Rewriting an Application is decided based on several parameters

...]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:41:58 -0400 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:41:58 -0400 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:41:58 -0400 Sep 21, 2011 Siva Koneru 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 I'm getting a bit confused about role of a person that article targets. Project sponsor? PM? Architect? Business analyst? Developer?

...]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:01:51 -0400 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:01:51 -0400 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:01:51 -0400 Sep 20, 2011 Pavel Grushetzky 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63007 When stuck with a legacy code base you’ll hear the claim “We’ll have to rewrite this from scratch in order to fix it!” It sounds promising. You start with a clean slate. You can do all the good stuff without all the...]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:29:32 -0400 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:29:32 -0400 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:29:32 -0400 Sep 20, 2011 Fabrizio Chami 9