This hands-on workshop will equip you with the necessary skills to confront legacy code. It teaches you how to use Test Driven Development and Refactoring practices to add new code to existing systems and make existing code more maintainable. Learn how to use an IDE to perform safe refactoring, while breaking dependencies and writing first few tests. These techniques are very useful to get existing code safely under test for refactoring. Learn to use these techniques in conjunction with TDD to breathe new life into large existing code bases.
Often developers shy away from making changes to existing (legacy) code base due to the fear of breaking existing functionality. While the team agrees that refactoring is the only solution, no one wants to take charge. Refactoring code without having automated tests can be scary. And quite often, it ends up being an egg-and-chicken problem. .i.e. to write tests one needs to refactor the code. But to refactor the code, we first need tests.
The Legacy Code Workshop teaches how to effectively understand and improve legacy code by offering a hands-on introduction to the tools, tactics and techniques for reviving legacy code.
The goal of these programming assessments is to identify real and quantifiable measures for the learning achieved through our workshop.
Interactive Dialogues, Programming Exercises, Demos and Instructional Games
Knowledge: 40%, Skill-Building: 60%
Intermediate to Advanced
"Inversion of Software Development", that's what Naresh gave me through his 5 days workshop at Amazon. He is one of the best mentors I encountered in my career.
The way he tries to explain TDD and Design principles with practical approaches, always challenging the concepts which we used to think were industry standards. Learning through his workshop, now coding is like blogging, drop dead simple, and you don't look back.
I hope we had more dojos like Naresh mentoring people in Indian Software Industries to let them know what real clean software development is all about. To sum up he instilled the idea - "Perfection isn't the goal, it's the baseline." about software development in me.
It's been 3 weeks since I had the opportunity to attend a 3-Day TDD workshop followed by a 3-Day Design Patterns workshop by Naresh Jain. Post the workshops; I was able to fully test drive a feature that is already in production.
I had many take-away from his workshops, but the most important ones were - 1. It gave me the confidence that with TDD you can come up with good designs, 2. Learnt refactoring techniques and IDE tricks, 3. Got a deeper understanding of design values, principles and patterns. 4. Identifying code smells (the codes that I was proud of, now all I see there is code smells :P). But thanks to Naresh I know how to make it right.
I recently met Naresh Jain during Test Driven Development(TDD) training at my current organisation. He is very knowledgeable and also very effective as a trainer. His enthusiasm and confidence is a game-changer when it comes to motivating the workshop participants.
I've really benefited from his training and by applying TDD in my day-to-day work . It was a great experience and I wish, I could get a chance to work with him on a real project.
Rarely have I met a trainer who was truly hands-on. The depth of knowledge and on-field experience of Naresh Jain is truly inspiring. His proficiency in agile techniques and TDD is bleeding edge.
We have benefited immensely in barely three days of TDD training with him. We wish he was on our team here in EMC2.
Recently I attended Naresh's workshop on Test Driven Development (TDD) at Amazon, Hyderabad. It was a great learning experience and an eye-opener in few cases.
He is very involved with the Agile community and has worked with a lot of industry experts. That's the best part of getting trained by him. He is up-to-date with the latest trends and his skills are very relevant.
Naresh's in-depth knowledge and great attitude, fueled by his passion for technology makes him a great techie to work with. I had a great experience and would highly recommend him for training/coaching or even just to have good discussions.
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