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The Definition of Legacy Code

From Michael Feathers' outstanding Working Effectively with Legacy Code:

The main thing that distinguishes legacy code from non-legacy code is tests, or rather a lack of tests.

In other words, if you’re still writing code without tests, you’re still writing legacy code.

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