Massive question.... In general, this is the reason Michael Feathers wrote his book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code", wherein he focuses on getting...

... many thanks for the thoughts and the link! to constrain the question somewhat (this is all relevant to a job i'm interviewing for), assume that the code is...

This is a really interesting question. I am in a position right now where I have a lot of influence on a team where we are developing a green-field app. I just...

... thank you for taking the time to share the perspective. it is definitely helpful, and is sparking some thoughts for me. i'm starting with the negatives...

Once on a No Fluff Just Stuff-seminar Venkat told a story about how he started out doing code review by just deciding with a collegue that they would team up...

I actually did the same thing in which two of us had to do a rewrite of some legacy code. He knew a lot about the domain and neither of us knew a lot about...