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SWE 304: Software Maintenance, Evolution & Re-engineering
The lifecycle reality of software evolution and legacy system preservation. Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution, software decay, technical debt quantification, reverse engineering, legacy code refactoring without specifications, golden master testing...
Course Overview
The lifecycle reality of software evolution and legacy system preservation. Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution, software decay, technical debt quantification, reverse engineering, legacy code refactoring without specifications, golden master testing... Curriculum Structure &...
What You'll Learn
- Evaluate legacy systems against Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution and quantify technical debt.
- Establish characterization and snapshot regression test suites around un-tested legacy codebases.
- Execute the Strangler Fig pattern to incrementally decompose monolithic legacy systems.
- Migrate active database schemas safely using zero-downtime expand-and-contract patterns.
- Reverse-engineer architectural models from legacy compiled binaries and undocumented code.
Requirements
- SWE 301
- SWE 303
Degree Programme Curriculum Context
This course is a curriculum unit of the Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Software Engineering degree framework in Nigeria.
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