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95 questions linked to/from I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code -- what now?
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What is the most effective way to add functionality to unfamiliar, structurally unsound code? [duplicate]
This is probably something everyone has to face during the development sooner or later.
You have an existing code written by someone else, and you have to extend it to work under new requirements.
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Estimating time costs in legacy codebase
Recently I started working on a project where a very old monolithic application is being migrated into microservice-based architecture.
The legacy codebase is very messy ('spaghetti code') and often ...
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How can I avoid causing bugs in the software when I fix unrelated bugs? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Methodology for documenting existing code base
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 ...
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Techniques to re-factor garbage and maintain sanity? [duplicate]
So I'm sitting down to a nice bowl of c# spaghetti, and need to add something or remove something... but I have challenges everywhere from functions passing arguments that doesn't make sense, someone ...
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Thousands of errors!
I was assigned to a new project recently. Well, an old project actually, written in classic ASP. Now a new version of the application is being written in the latest ASP.NET, but it's not expected to ...
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How to properly take over a complex PHP project [duplicate]
I've been tasked to correct some issues on the backend of a large website project that has been outsourced for some time. The original developers and us are not on good terms so it's not feasible to ...
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Agile - What we doing wrong?
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 ...
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Should older code be updated to use newer language constructs, or should outdated constructs be stuck with?
I want to make some enhancements in some still-functional code that was written a long time ago, before the programming language it is written in grew in features. In theory, the whole project uses ...
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How to document a project which is already developed?
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 ...
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How to read thousands lines of code without any documentation? [closed]
Previously I was searching for a good TimeLine control for a WPF project. I found an answer in Here which direct me to this CodePlex project.
Now I want to change code to feed my culture needs. But ...
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Is there any commonly accepted guidelines about how to write modern C?
I have a strong Java/Groovy background and I've been assigned to a team that maintain quite a big C code base for an administrative software.
Some pain points, like dealing with blob in the database ...
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How would you test Google Maps "Get Directions" feature?
(I imagine this would be a good interview question, but in my case it's more pragmatic than that.)
We have a large & complex application that models an extremely long and sophisticated chemical ...
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What to do with a not well organized application? [duplicate]
I'm a newly graduate programmer and just got hired before my graduation. In the office, I used to create and revise modules of some applications developed by other programmers in our company. The ...
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What to do when you inherit an unmaintainable codebase? [duplicate]
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Techniques to re-factor garbage and maintain sanity?
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now?
I'm currently working at a company with 2 other PHP ...
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