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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by tgraham on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:06PM (#19841420)
Dumb question - how automated is an automated solution that 'refactors COBOL to java' in 18 months? Impressed with the solution / outcome.
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by darkr on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:08PM (#19843898)
At a wild guess, I’d imagine getting something working probably took about 18 hours, with the rest of the time spent writing tests and defining behaviour of the legacy system to prove that the port actually worked
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