We hate code - The !joy of maintaining dead code

Track: Core Java

Abstract

Disclaimer: If you love to maintain legacy code than this session is not for you.
You probably know the hassle of maintaining code that was written long time before you entered the project or company. Often the developers who wrote it are not even in the company anymore. So how do you know if the code is still used? Often you simply don’t know and so you take the code with you…from one release to another…and the codebase is growing.
This session will give you an idea about what you can do to get rid of legacy code. Which tools are available and how they can help you to male your life easier.

Gerrit Grunwald

Gerrit Grunwald is a software engineer that loves coding for around 40 years already. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like JFXtras.org as well as his own projects (TilesFX, Medusa, Enzo, SteelSeries Swing, SteelSeries Canvas). Gerrit blogs regularly at http://harmonic-code.org, he is an active member of the Java community, where he founded and leads the Java User Group Münster (Germany), he is a JavaOne rockstar and a Java Champion. He is a speaker at conferences and user groups internationally and writes for several magazines.