Linked Questions

TL;DR: What would you look for in a collection of documentation when taking over an app to be run a larger scale than originally designed for? I've been tasked with writing documentation for an ...

How would you engineer this: You have a legacy application that is a big ball of mud and a monolith. This application is "impossible" to change to look good on mobile devices. The management ...

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 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 ...

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'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 ...

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-...

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 ...

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 ...

I do understand this is a wild question and totally open-ended but just wanted to know that I am barking up the right tree. I've inherited a large code base of many solutions and services, and whilst ...

I'm a developer in an agile team, and we try to use Scrum. So I'll put here a hypothetical problem to illustrate the situation. We have a very old app, using some messy and bad maintainability ...