Saturday, September 4, 2010

Rewriting Vs Refactoring

Once again, I found myself having a discussion about the dangers of doing a legacy code rewrite. Durning this client meeting, I came up with an illustration I wanted to share.

I vBlogged my thoughts here:



These 3 graphs sum up the Massive Risk at the end.

The Rewrite Scenario





The Hidden Question at the End






The Refactor Scenario

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