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The Codebase Nobody Wanted to Touch I inherited a Laravel 9 application — a line-of-business app with complex workflows, role-based access, and third-party integrations. It worked. Users depended on it. And it had exactly zero automated tests. Note: The code examples throughout this series have been made generic to protect the original domain, but they reflect real patterns from a production codebase. Think of them as practical, working examples you can adapt to your own project. No tests. No li