Chapter 1. The Legacy Crisis
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. | ||
| --Attributed to Albert Einstein | ||
From the moment a software product is released, the race against time and aging begins. The cliché that “legacy code is code written yesterday” is increasingly true. As the pace of technology development increases, so too does the pace of technology obsolescence. Software modernization attempts to evolve a legacy system, or elements of the system, when conventional evolutionary practices, such as maintenance and enhancement, can no longer achieve the desired system properties. ...
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