Java Posse #308 - Working with Legacy Codebases

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/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall