
Working Effectively with Legacy Code • Michael Feathers & Christian Clausen
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
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The Importance of Confidence in a System
confidence comes from something else, actually, then understanding it. Like to a trust that this works, even if I haven't looked at it. The better and good method naming, for instance, and like having a good hierarchy of your code is a way to sort of eliminate a lot of the branches,. hopefully eliminating a much of the code. So yeah, I agree. That's really an interesting take because I would normally say that it's the level of confidence that you feel and it's very close to what you're describing.
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