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The Mikado Method
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The Mikado Method

by Ola Ellnestam, Daniel Brolund
March 2014
Beginner
240 pages
8h 21m
English
Manning Publications
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As a codebase grows large and more complicated, and they often do, there usually comes a time when you want to improve portions of it to meet new functional requirements, new legal requirements, or a new business model. You may also just want to change it to make it more comprehensible. For small changes, you can keep things straight in your head, but for larger ones the chances of getting lost on a sea of broken code increases dramatically.

As you desperately try to navigate that sea, it’s easy to start labeling the code. You can come up with all sorts of names for the code, especially bad code that isn’t fit for its purpose. Legacy code is one of the more popular terms, which literally means code someone (else) wrote and that ...

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