Roundup '10 - Working with Legacy Codebases Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion of the problems and experiences of working with a legacy codebase when maintaining or writing new code.* Joel on software (on rewriting software) + http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

• Incremental refactoring

• http://java.dzone.com/articles/consistency-code-base-and

• Selenium

• http://seleniumhq.org/

• Unit tests

• http://www.junit.org/

• Interaction tests

• http://www.artofunittesting.com/Chapters/Interaction_testing_using_Mock_Objects

• Findbugs

• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• Acyclic dependencies

• http://stan4j.com/advanced/acyclic-dependencies-principle.html

• JDBC

• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/database/

• Foxpro

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro

• Static analysis

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_code_analysis

• Forking a codebase

• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.extreme-programming/108045

• OSGi / Java modules (Jigsaw)

• http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage

• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/

• Integration tests

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration_testing

• Jackpot?

• http://labs.oracle.com/features/jackpot/

• Dependency injection

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection

• Windows 7 vs Vista

• http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

• http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/default.aspx

• Linux Kernel 2.0

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel

• JVM Hotspot

• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/

• Spring

• http://www.springsource.org/

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