Legacy Coderetreat Workshop

This is a full-day workshop for developers who want to improve in handling legacy Java code.

Draft for agenda

09:40 - 10:00 Start

• introduction of facilitators and participants:
  • Number of years worked in what can be conceived as "legacy code"?
  • Name one lesson learned from past experiences with legacy code!
  • State one goal for you for today - what do you want to think / feel / know at the end of the day?
• explain format and pair programming

10:00 - 11:00 Getting to know ugly trivia game

• just toy around with the ugly trivia game
• get used to the format
• understand the codebase

11:15 - 12:05 Golden Master

• creates tests for following slots
• if time is too short, we'll also use slot 3 to finish writing the tests and move every topic one slot

12:05 - 13:00 Subclass to test

14:00 - 15:00 Remove duplication + pure functions

15:00 - 16:00 Refactor for extendability with TDD

16:30 - 17:30 From nothing to system tests

17:30 - 18:30 Explain optional topics, discussion, retrospective

Optional topics

• extract method / variable
• Mikado method
• "Fix a bug", Adrian Bolboaca
• Applying to your own code or given codebase (different from ugly trivia game)