Richard Groß
Continuous Archaeology, TestDsl and Hypermedia,
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Richard is a software archeologist, developer and auditor. After 11 years in the business he's become a teenager developer. He's consulted legacy and greenfield projects at all large german organizations or knows someone who has and has now held multiple talks about his experience at international conferences and meetups. He enjoys mastering TDD, BDD, DDD, decoupled design and even practices that don't include two D's, like building TestDsls. Most importantly though is that he likes to break the fourth wall and engage his audience. Do you like that as well?
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Domain Re-discovery Patterns for Legacy Code
In the world of software development, legacy code often poses significant challenges. Existing codebases, built years ago, may lack documentation and understanding of the original domain. This lack of knowledge can hinder effective maintenance, upgrades, and feature development. The process of rediscovering the domain of legacy code is invaluable for developers seeking to enhance and extend these systems.
In this talk we'll delve into various domain re-discovery patterns that help in identifying and reconstructing the domain model that the legacy code represents. These patterns go beyond merely deciphering the code's functionality; rather, they provide strategies to comprehend the underlying concepts, behaviors, and relationships in the domain.
Attendees can expect to gain practical insights, methodologies, and practical tips to tackle the challenges associated with legacy codebases. By embracing domain rediscovery patterns, developers can bring order and coherence to legacy systems, paving the way for future enhancements and system evolution.
Continuous Delivery for Legacy Code
This is based on a true story.
My day job is software archeology. I find joy in recovering and analyzing code bones and culture as well as making the skeleton walk again. A short time ago, however, I was confronted with the most horrible code base I have ever seen. This talk is about how we managed to save it and achieve bi-weekly deployments with a high level of confidence.
Five million lines of code in multiple languages (Classic ASP, .NET, VBScript, VBA, JavaScript, T-SQL, PL-SQL) in one monolith. The business logic stretched from the UI (WebForms, Scripting, SQL Queries) down to the database (Stored Procedures), there was no test coverage and an enormous amount of hidden coupling. A version control system was not used, we had no test environment, deployments required developers to copy their local compilation to production and multiple customer installations are supported by uncommenting and commenting code.
Together we will explore what to do when you inherit such a thing: how to identify hotspots, find hidden coupling, explore how connascence can help you, ways to test as well as refactor and how to achieve a regular deployment schedule.
Domain-Driven Design Europe 2024 Sessionize Event
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