How do I take responsibility for my code when colleague makes unnecessary improvements without notice?
One of my teammates is a jack of all trades in our IT shop and I respect his insight.
Agile: When to re-factor and when to extend while accruing technical debt? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Rule of thumb for cost vs. savings for code re-use [duplicate] (7 answers) Agile estimation with tech-debt (3 answers) Closed 11 years ago. Consider the following scenario. You currently have a feature set A you wish to extend to include feature set B. In the near feature there’s a […]
How many regression bugs from refactoring is too many.
Recent QA testing has found some regression bugs in our code. My team lead blames recent refactoring efforts for the regressions.
What would help when refactoring a large method to ensure that I don’t break anything?
I’m currently refactoring a part of a large codebase with no unit tests whatsoever. I tried to refactor code the brute way, i.e. by trying to guess what the code is doing and what changes wouldn’t change it meaning, but without success: it randomly breaks features all around the codebase.
Prevent code from getting mess [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Techniques to re-factor garbage and maintain sanity? [duplicate] (11 answers) How would you know if you’ve written readable and easily maintainable code? [closed] (19 answers) Closed 11 years ago. I am a student and a freelance programmer. These days I am developing a software in VB6 which has recently […]
Coding style (do more, then simplify) [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Prototyping vs. Clean Code at the early stages (10 answers) When to refactor (9 answers) Closed 11 years ago. I’m a CS student and I have been coding for a few months shy of a year now, and I seem to have developed what I think may be a […]
Coding style (do more, then simplify) [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Prototyping vs. Clean Code at the early stages (10 answers) When to refactor (9 answers) Closed 11 years ago. I’m a CS student and I have been coding for a few months shy of a year now, and I seem to have developed what I think may be a […]
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 […]
I should have used a factory method instead of a constructor. Can I change that and still be backwards-compatible?
The problem
How to handle product rebranding in code in a short time frame [closed]
Closed 8 years ago.