Linked Questions

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 also told that there is not easy way to do software testing. We may find prepared test cases for protocols but in most case the ...

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 ...

So we're having a rather heated debate at work as to what would be the best practice going forward while refactoring our reporting system. Most of us have some strong opinions one way or the other, ...

At my new work I am dealing with a quite big C/C++ project (50k lines in multiple files). I usually "draw" what the code is doing to understand its functioning but this time I am struggling a bit ...

On my first part-time programming gig during college, I dealt with a large-ish web application responsible for handling a periodic event hosted by our client, largely a plain CRUD snoozefest with a ...

i am faced with the following scenario and i wonder if you guys have some tips for me on how to approach this. One of my colleagues is going to leave the company in a few month and i am ordered to ...

I've inherited responsibilities for maintaining a section of enterprise intranet, and my manager has tasked me with, "Clean up the code, please. We're probably going to get lots of change requests ...

I have started working on a new project and to my surprise its written by a single developer with almost no tests at all, the remaining tests are either buggy or feel error prone throwing a lot of ...

I'm a software intern and I am assigned bugs to fix as well as features to add to the software. When I add features, everything works well. My problem is more with fixing bugs. I'm working on an ...

I have inherited a 10+ year old project that has been handed down through many developers. Needless to say, there are many instances where there is some class or object property that no one knows what ...