Linked Questions

I was recently trying to explain a particular anti-pattern to some novice programmers and found that it was hard to express without an overly-detailed example. I'm sure it has a name and that someone ...

I have inherited a lot of bad code at my current position. By legacy, I mean WinForms projects written in VB.net where ALL of the logic is written directly in the form code, with no classes, tons of ...

I have been working for my company for almost a year now and been primarily focused on adding features and maintaining two 15+-year-old WPF Projects and one 20+-year-old WinForms Project. The ...

I'm currently working in a project that aims to implement automatic testing of a software package. You can imagine this software is a bit like Excel in that it has a workspace that contains all the ...

We have an application that has served us and our clients well from some 20 years now. Pretty good track record but it's obviously showing it's age in some areas. We are looking for advise and ...

I've willingly inherited a VB.Net forms project based on .Net 3.5 last edited with VS2012. I was able to open it up and up-convert it to VS2017. I can compile and run it and make some little tweaks. ...

Problem Background Recently, I joined a government agency as a software engineer/scientist/analyst. Previously, worked in software industry - gained 3 years of software engineering experience at ...

I would like to know what options are available for documenting a project which has already been developed, as the developers who worked on didn't write even a single page of documentation. The ...

I work as part of a team on an existing application that has no inline documentation, nor does it have technical documentation. As I've been working on various bug reports on the application, I've ...

In a feedback for a (deleted) question I asked here last year, I was told that there is not easy way to do software testing. We may find prepared test cases for protocols but in most case the test are ...

At my current company, the project I work on is coded in Java, at least for the systems / backend part. Whenever I get assigned a task dealing with the Java code, it take me hours or even days to ...

I will be changing jobs soon, and I would like to make life as easy as possible for whoever inherits the codebases in the future. There is unlikely to be overlap time where a new hire could ramp up ...

I've recently started my first job as a software developer at a small startup company. I do not have a degree in a software engineering related field, although, I have very recently completed an A-...

Possible Duplicate: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? I have been recently handled a giant multithreaded program with no comments and have been asked to understand what it ...

A team created a structure like this (pseudo-code): struct Rectangle { int left, right, top, bottom; } Half a project later, the team realized that two thirds of the code was filling this ...