I'm trying to read Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers, but I'm having a very hard time with those Java/C++ code snippets.
Are there any good books that cover the same topic, but are written with Python in mind?
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A:
If you are already considering Python 2 legacy code, and want to migrate it to Python 3, start here.
About the other topics that this book covers, I think that there is nothing language-specific about them:
- Understanding the mechanics of software change: adding features, fixing bugs, improving design, optimizing performance
- Getting legacy code into a test harness
- Writing tests that protect you against introducing new problems
- Techniques that can be used with any language or platform-with examples in Java, C++, C, and C#
- Accurately identifying where code changes need to be made
- Coping with legacy systems that aren't object-oriented
- Handling applications that don't seem to have any structure
jbochi
2010-01-01 18:21:17
I don't want to migrate to Python 3.x. The goal is to clean up some Python 2.x legacy code and write tests for it, before I'll proceed to enhance it.
JS_is_bad
2010-01-01 18:22:25