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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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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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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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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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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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Possible Duplicate: 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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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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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 ...

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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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Possible Duplicate: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? Not long ago my company placed me in a team that deals with some of the most complex bugs that are in production. The ...

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In my job I have to maintain a poorly written codebase which is both hard to understand, has tons of comments that are just plain wrong, has a bunch of weird decisionmaking going on in it and a whole ...

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Possible Duplicate: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? Recently I got hired to work on existing web application because of NDA I'm not at liberty to disclose any details but ...

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Possible Duplicate: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? For my next project, I've been tasked with "overhauling" a large legacy web application with many parts. It is a JSP ...

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Possible Duplicate: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? I'm dealing with legacy code. It contains some BIG classes (line count 8000+) and some BIG methods (line count 3000+). ...

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I am facing a BIG BALL OF MUD pattern (according the Foot and Yoder paper) at my current job attribution. Interestingly that's not really classified as an Anti-Pattern, and yes the Product works at ...

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Recently we got a requirement for converting a classic asp project to asp.net. This one is really a very old project created around 2002/2003. It consists of around 50 asp pages. I found very little ...

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When starting to work on a project with an existing code base, the first thing that needs to be done is usually to understand the application & existing code. Let's assume that the existing code ...

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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 ...

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I've been tasked with studying a Python code, which runs on an orchestrator, which schedule the launch of the code in correspondence of some events. The code imports some modules, and it's basically ...

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So I recently started a new job for a small software company. They've got some old technology which I was aware of during the interview process. However, I've been digging into their code-base, and I'...

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I know most people hate flat and long functions, and hate when code is not full of ISomethings. The problem is that I guess my mind works in different way, and I always have problems with that type ...

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I have inherited a legacy web application many years which: Does not make use of Object Oriented principles, even though the language would permit it Has no unit tests, nor any sort of test suite, ...

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I've inherited a hosted system (system "A") which can be used to manage products, inventory, and orders, and can send those products to various third-parties. Quite simply, system "A" doesn't work. ...

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Old application that is used by 50-60.000 paying customers. Company is several hundred people big. Application has a lot of business critical code (30% of all code) written in classic asp. Application ...

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I have been handed a very cluttered, "One Ring" object (one object to rule them all). The OR class has 40 fields. These fields map to 16 different objects (the OR has all the fields from the 16 ...

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So I'm responsible for maintaining and enhancing a PHP codebase that runs to around 1,100 files and 120,000 lines of code. In general, it's not terrible, although since it was written over some 10+ ...

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A little background on the project: we as a company receive a spaghetti source code, and into that we add even more spaghetti code. So with that I want to say that complete restructuring and ...

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I'm and entry-level developer straight out of college. I am the only developer at this company. I feel the challenges I face are different to most people working with sub optimal or very poorly ...

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I'm new to a small company that's pretty much run by one guy. He knows all the ins and outs of the system which is quite large. We have a database with about 300 different tables. I'm struggling to ...

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I have to continue feature development, issue fixing of a halfway completed code base. There is a no documentation, all developers had left the company. The technology stack is somewhat familiar to ...