Fascinated about terms like unit testing and TDD? Praying to work for green field project so that you, too, can do unit testing and TDD?
If these questions sounds familiar to you then let me tell you that you are not alone. While hype of automated testing, TDD, BDD is in air, not everyone is fortunate enough to work on green field project with cutting edge tools and techniques. For years, business has invested lot of money in developing and maintain those “Legacy” system, that everyone seems to hate today. Management is not ready to invest in building new system when current system is serving the purpose. After all for years, we have been hearing “If it ain't broke, don't fix it”.
Given this destiny, what we, the developers, can do to make our life easier? What would be win-win solution out of this situation? People like Martin Fowlers, has already answered these questions in his great book “Working effectively with legacy code”. If you are interested in getting some hands on experience with those trick and don’t mind handing around with like minded people, then come to ACC Campus next to highland mall on 09/19/09. I am facilitating workshop on the topic (Big thanks to AgileAustin for giving me this opportunity).
Here is link to event detail and registering for workshop. Hurry up before all the tickets are sold.
http://agileaustinrefactoring-rss.eventbrite.com/
C U there!!!!