Restoring a legacy: lessons learned
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Rebuilding a legacy system has some parallels to the restoration of a work of art. The authors draw upon this comparison to illustrate the challenges they faced in redesigning a telephony system. The restoration involved far more than updating the code, the development team also had to understand the existing architecture, add new functionality, and develop a long-term hardware migration plan. The technical and managerial lessons learned should prove valuable to those involved in similar projects
Published in:
Software, IEEE
(Volume:15
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: Jul/Aug 1998