Legacy Code is legacy code as soon as it’s written I know you have seen this ugly, scary code, during one of the bugfixing sessions, or when adding some features to the existing codebase. Everyone did. I know sometimes it feels like the class, or method has been written ages ago and what is worse: apparently it is working fine, for now. We don’t like those names for variables, we see that repetitions in code, we could even swear, that this code could be much shorter and cleaner. But who would touch ...