Linked Questions

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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+). ...

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 ...