Preface
What Is Software Reengineering?
Any developer who has been practicing his craft for more than a few years has been confronted with the task of enhancing an application that is difficult to work with. Navigating the code is difficult, figuring out where to start tracking down a defect is difficult, and making changes is difficult. Everything is difficult with these applications. Enhancements and bug fixes can be time-consuming, risky, and expensive.
One option for these legacy applications is to take them offline for a year or more to rewrite from scratch. Often these applications are so critical to the operation of the business, however, that feature development cannot be stopped for such an extended period of time. Therefore, work on ...
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