The Void of Legacy: A Strategy for Radical Improvements in a Project

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Practical techniques for handling large legacy codebases (projects older than ~5 years) using Java-based examples. Covers assessing the size of technical debt, designing a refactoring plan, and executing that plan with minimal disruption; includes theory, practical steps, and some statistics. Android-specifics are minimal, so recommendations apply to engineers on both platforms.

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1. 0:00Legacy problem
2. 16:54Measuring technical debt
3. 24:21Introducing Sidar method
4. 33:24Refactoring results
5. 40:31Q&A

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