---
title: "When I fight with legacy code"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2013/2/8/when-i-fight-with-legacy-code.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2013/2/8/when-i-fight-with-legacy-code.html"
published: "2013-02-08T13:22:21"
updated: "2013-02-08T13:22:21"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "When I consult on Sharepoint Projects When I see sharepoint designers at work When I pair with someone and we rock"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# When I fight with legacy code

By Roy Osherove February 8, 2013 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 8, 2013; technical details may be outdated.

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_3GSZE2q.gif)

When I consult on Sharepoint Projects![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_RMg5ui0.gif)

When I see sharepoint designers at work

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_0c9ZUZj.gif)

When I pair with someone and we rock

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/i.imgur.com_D3PL6Na.gif)

## Lessons on this topic

- [Discussion About Pros and Cons of Unconstrained Frameworks](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/the-art-of-unit-testing-and-tdd-in-java/discussion-about-pros-and-cons-of-unconstrained-frameworks/) · The Art of Unit Testing and TDD in Java

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/