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Beyond Legacy Code : Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software by David Scott Bernstein is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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We're losing tens of billions of dollars a year on broken software, and great new ideas such as agile development and Scrum don't always pay off. But there's hope. The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems facing our industry. Discover why these practices work, not just how they work, and dramatically increase the quality and maintainability of any software project. These nine practices could save the software industry. Beyond Legacy Code is filled with practical, hands-on advice and a common-sense exploration of why technical practices such as refactoring and test-first development are critical to building maintainable software. Discover how to avoid the pitfalls teams encounter when adopting these practices, and how to dramatically reduce the risk associated with building software--realizing significant savings in both the short and long term. With a deeper understanding of the principles behind the practices, you'll build software that's easier and less costly to maintain and extend. By adopting these nine key technical practices, you'll learn to say what, why, and for whom before how; build in small batches; integrate conti
Who reads Beyond Legacy Code : Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- David Scott Bernstein
- Publisher
- Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The; Pragmatic Bookshelf
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781397816801
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Engineering, Science, Computer Science
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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