Most books on programming focus on a language, or how to write simple programs. You’ll find books on algorithms, tools like Eclipse, design patterns, and the latest techniques like test-driven development. But if your day job is being a software developer at a large institution, although these books will be useful they probably won’t help you with your biggest challenge. This will be how to work on very big applications.
Very large applications will:
* contain millions of lines of code
* have been in production for years
* have been worked on by dozens of developers, with varying degrees of competence
* have many bugs
* be so big that nobody fully understands them
* be difficult to change - a seemingly small change could introduce serious bugs
If you find yourself working on such a beast, what can you do? I suggest that you take a long hard look at this book. It will give you confidence, knowing that you’re not alone.
After introductory material, it’s organised into a list of problems/FAQS and solutions/patterns which are heavily interlinked. Example: I don’t have much time and I have to change it => sprout method, sprout class, wrap method, and wrap class. Wrap class itself refers to extract implementer, extract interface, and decorator pattern.
You’d probably go mad or become dispirited if you read all of the book sequentially. I recommend that you read the first, easy sections; skim the rest so that you get an overview of the contents; then use it in anger when you have a real problem to solve. The techniques you actually use then become part of your armoury for the future.
Without these techniques it can be soul-destroying to work on “legacy” applications. With the techniques you stand a chance of transforming the situation into being comfortable and maybe even enjoyable - because you’re applying engineering techniques to make valuable applications even more valuable.
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