Comments on: Surviving legacy code http://www.programming4scientists.com/2008/11/10/surviving-legacy-code/ Software development wisdom and common-sense for the scientist-programmer Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:05:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rich http://www.programming4scientists.com/2008/11/10/surviving-legacy-code/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Rich Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:30:41 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=335#comment-95 Glad you enjoyed the article :-) I agree entirely about testing! My experience is also that testing is ignored far too much. I think it's *really* important to have confidence that your code is doing the right thing. Glad you enjoyed the article :-)

I agree entirely about testing! My experience is also that testing is ignored far too much. I think it’s *really* important to have confidence that your code is doing the right thing.

]]> By: gioby http://www.programming4scientists.com/2008/11/10/surviving-legacy-code/comment-page-1/#comment-92 gioby Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:54:53 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=335#comment-92 Nice article (as all of the others in this blog). I am often surprised by the fact that people use code without testing to calculate their results, and later nobody during the peer-reviewing process says anything about it. Nice article (as all of the others in this blog).
I am often surprised by the fact that people use code without testing to calculate their results, and later nobody during the peer-reviewing process says anything about it.

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