What can I do to maintain respect for a poorly written codebase? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? (19 answers) Closed 11 years ago. 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 […]
Maintain a web application once the only developer is gone
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed answers to this question, including citations and an explanation of why your answer is correct. Answers without enough detail may be edited or deleted. I have a terminal disease and there is a very high chance that I will no longer be in this world by the end […]
Is it a good idea to schedule regular time to clean up code? [closed]
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What changes are too big to be made easy by proper design?
This is a rather vague question, but it’s something I’ve never felt has been answered in a satisfactory way when reading about proper design.
Software failure due to maintenance oversights example/case study
I’m doing some investigation into the role of maintenance in software development and the use of metrics within the development cycle.
Functional document from code
I am a Sr java Developer and have recently joined a new team. Here I have been asked to create a functional document looking at the code of a legacy application. This application was written about 8-10 years back, which is currently running in live environment but due to lack of documentation it is difficult to be setup and run on local development box. I consulted some of the old team members who support it, but none was able to run it on their dev boxes.
How should you deal with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?
I am the maintainer of a project which has a large non-technical userbase. I’ve been maintaining it for about 4 years now and adding new features as they’ve been requested.
Strategy for reading and understanding Node.js code [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: How do you dive into large code bases? (31 answers) What is the most effective way to add functionality to unfamiliar, structurally unsound code? [duplicate] (7 answers) Closed 11 years ago. Concretely I am looking at this 2000 line file of what I will pretty arbitrarily call “mediocre” code. […]
Starting a recurring project from scratch [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: When is a BIG Rewrite the answer? (25 answers) Closed 11 years ago. We have a project that keeps recurring. The client expects us to run a website twice a year and this is happened for the last year and a half. I took the last working copy and […]
How to handle product rebranding in code in a short time frame [closed]
Closed 8 years ago.