Questions tagged [legacy-code]
Originally legacy code meant code 'inherited' from authors or from a previous program/system version. Since Michael Feathers published his "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" book, new definition came to be, where code without tests is legacy code.
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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?
I am a developer in a 5-member team and I believe our project is headed for disaster. I'll describe why in a moment, but my question is: how should I behave?
The deadline is in 1.5 months, and I ...
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Does it make sense to write tests for legacy code when there is no time for a complete refactoring?
I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...
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I have 200k lines of poorly designed code, will units tests or integration tests be more valuable? [duplicate]
I've inherited a lot of poorly designed code; the code has no tests. I am putting tests in place before I attempt a major refactor, but I have run into a problem with my unit tests.
The problem is, I ...
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Is there a named anti pattern for historically grown software? [closed]
Is there an anti pattern that describes a historically grown software system where multiple developers just added new features to the system but no one really kept an eye on the overall architecture ...
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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 to avoid excessive method overloading?
We have quite a lot of places in the source code of our application , where one class has many methods with same names and different parameters. Those methods always have all the parameters of a '...
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How to deal with a large codebase with no requirements and the responsible person leaving the company soon [duplicate]
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 ...
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Have you worked with poorly designed application? [closed]
I have been asked to work in a Java web application that is very very poorly designed. In the name of "making this easy", they have come up with their own "framework" to make things extremely ...
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Effective way to estimate dead code removal?
I've been working in an application with about 100k LOCs and basically We have been reworking features to comply with a new architecture based on a new technology stack. This work is almost finished ...
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Refactoring web pages with user controls
Is it good design to use many user controls to help refactor a web application?
In my case, it's a VB.NET Webforms ASP.NET website. All our pages are organized into sections that, while related and ...
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Legacy code: what to do in regards to maintenance and moving forward? [duplicate]
I am currently working on an application with legacy code that was built using proof of concepts (POCs). These POCs became the finished production-ready code, there were no tests, and the classes have ...
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Follow Up: Legacy code maintenance and moving forward (implementing previous answers)
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This is a follow up to my previous question that was flagged as a duplicate, and I do not know what would work better as the title.
Here is a link to the previous question:
Legacy code: ...
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How to deal with code impossible to change [duplicate]
This question maybe borderline with the workplace. Also I apologize if it sounds more like a rant than anything.
We have a legacy code base (million of line of code). No evolution is ever possible, ...
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