Titus Winters on Google's C++ refactoring and CS curriculum reform

Google engineer Titus Winters discusses how Google refactored about 250 million lines of C++ code, and what happened when Search could no longer ship on its regular release cadence, according to a post by Gergely Orosz.

Winters also argues that undergraduate computer science curricula, which he believes have changed little since about 2000, need major revision to cover testing and verification. The report is a summary of his discussion and does not include additional data or independent verification of the refactoring outcomes.