19 - Acceptance testing legacy code

09/02/2019 11 min Temporada 2 Episodio 19

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Episode Synopsis

Legacy code is everywhere and we cannot escape it. Today I'm going to talk about making legacy code acceptable from a developers perspective.

When taking over a legacy project or adding features to an existing application it is important to be aware of the current levels of stability. I do this through a series of acceptance and smoke tests that I can run automatically when the software changes.

This gives me a level of confidence that my changes work and don't break the existing code base.
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