Comments on: Deleting code gives me a warm fuzzy feeling… http://twasink.net/2005/04/15/deleting-code-gives-me-a-warm-fuzzy-feeling/ Robert's Rambling Ruminations Regarding Reality... Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robert Watkins http://twasink.net/2005/04/15/deleting-code-gives-me-a-warm-fuzzy-feeling/#comment-179 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:55:51 +0000 http://twasink.net/wp/?p=133#comment-179 I read Michael Feathers “Working Effectively With Legacy Code” for ideas. :)

Oh, and good code inspection tools.

]]> By: Michael http://twasink.net/2005/04/15/deleting-code-gives-me-a-warm-fuzzy-feeling/#comment-178 Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:29:59 +0000 http://twasink.net/wp/?p=133#comment-178 Robert – obviously in the example you had you where 100% confident you could delete it (as it would never work anyway).

What about in cases <100%… to get the confident sleep-well-at-night feeling after deleting – how do you go about being sure it isn’t used?

I guess test coverage would be a large part…

]]> By: Michael http://twasink.net/2005/04/15/deleting-code-gives-me-a-warm-fuzzy-feeling/#comment-177 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:09:24 +0000 http://twasink.net/wp/?p=133#comment-177 Clean code, clean mind.

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