第 16 章 修改现有的代码

Chapter 16 Modifying Existing Code

Chapter 1 described how software development is iterative and incremental. A large software system develops through a series of evolutionary stages, where each stage adds new capabilities and modifies existing modules. This means that a system’s design is constantly evolving. It isn’t possible to conceive the right design for a system at the outset; the design of a mature system is determined more by changes made during the system’s evolution than by any initial conception. Previous chapters described how to squeeze out complexity during the initial design and implementation; this chapter discusses how to keep complexity from creeping in as the system evolves.

第 1 章介绍了软件开发是如何迭代和增量的。大型软件系统是通过一系列演化阶段开发的，其中每个阶段都添加了新功能并修改了现有模块。这意味着系统的设计在不断发展。一开始就不可能为系统设计正确的设计。一个成熟的系统的设计更多地取决于系统演化过程中所做的更改，而不是任何初始概念。前面的章节描述了如何在初始设计和实现过程中降低复杂性。本章讨论如何防止随着系统的发展而增加复杂性。