Continuous delivery for legacy code

This session is based on a true story.

Richard's day job is software archaeology. He finds joy in recovering and analysing code bones and culture as well as making the skeleton walk again.

A short time ago, however, he was confronted with the most horrible code base he had ever seen. This talk is about how they managed to save it and achieve bi-weekly deployments with a high level of confidence. 

Participant takeaways:

• Explore what to do when you inherit such a thing
• How to identify hotspots
• Find hidden coupling
• How connascence can help you, 
• Ways to test and refactor 
• How to achieve a regular deployment schedule

Themes:

DevOps, Legacy Code.