Working Effectively with Legacy Perl Code

By Erik Rantapaa
Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010 10:30 AM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate/Advanced

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This talk will cover techniques and strategies I've used when faced with maintenance of a large, legacy perl application. The talk will cover: the benefits of unit testing, typical problems found with legacy code, specific techniques on overcoming these problems and general lessons learned about working with legacy code.

Attended by:

• Nick Melnick (‎oZ‎)
• Leonard Miller (‎olegm‎)
• Peter Karman (‎karpet‎)
• John Trammell (‎jotr‎)
• Douglas Lochowski-Haney
• Troy Johnson
• Lee Carmichael
• Ardeshir Sepahsalar (‎ardeshir‎)
• Joe Kline (‎gizmo‎)
• Jon Backstrom (‎backstrom‎)
• Garrett Kuchta
• Alex White (‎wu‎)
• David Lowe (‎dlowe‎)
• J. Nick Koston (‎bdraco‎)
• Ben Klaas
• Thomas Jonas
• anon.js
• Jason Schulz