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		collinmanderson on May 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Improve a Legacy Codebase I'd say as long as you've read and understand nearly every line of code in the old system, you're good to rewrite it from scratch.

busterarm on May 30, 2017 [–]

And if you write the test suite first, you're in a much better position to do this successfully.

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