Monthly Archives: August 2014

Legacy application – Refactoring or reengineering? (IV)

Qualilogy-Legacy-Reengineering-RefactoringBack from summer vacation and back on this series of posts about using SonarQube with a Legacy C application, in this case the first version of Word published by Microsoft in 1990.

We posed the following hypothesis: Microsoft has just been sold and its new owner asks you, as a Quality consultant, to recommend a strategy for this software.

Do not think that this never happens: software editors are purchased every day, and R&D people and software code are at the heart of these acquisitions.

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