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Prevent code from getting mess [duplicate]
I am a student and a freelance programmer. These days I am developing a software in VB6 which has recently crossed 100KB of source code.
The main problem, I face is, many times I have to refactor my ...
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How do I handle having so many SQL queries?
I have an MVC3 project that uses SQL Server.
I use data from the SQL database all the time and I often find that I'm reusing/duplicating some SQL queries. I thought I'd solve this problem by creating ...
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Can notes/to-dos in code comments sent to code-reviews result in an effective refactoring process?
I want to start/improve a culture of collective code ownership at my company but at a geographically distributed level... I'd say there is some current collective code-ownership mentality, but only at ...
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What is the politically correct way of refactoring other's code?
I'm currently working in a geographically distributed team in a big company. Everybody is just focused on today's tasks and getting things done, however this means sometimes things have to be done the ...
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7answers
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After how much line of code a function should be break down?
While working on existing code base, I usually come across procedures that contain Abusive use of IF and Switch statements. The procedures consist of overwhelming code, which I think require ...
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Example bad code project to motivate refactoring / good design [closed]
This is sort of the opposite of Is there an open-source project that can be an example of well-written code?.
I am teaching software engineering to undergraduates and I would like a blob of object ...
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7answers
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How best to prevent having to revisit a change after check in
Normally what happens is that I work on something for a while and then when I am done I check it in(After the test/review process of course). Sometimes I have to go back and fix something that I got ...
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How clean should new code be? [duplicate]
I'm the lead designer in our team, which means I'm responsible for the quality of the code; functionality, maintainability and readability.
How clean should I require my team members' code to be if ...
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How do I convince my team to use smaller classes/methods?
Disclaimer: I'm a newcomer (this is my third day of work), and most of my teammates are more experienced than me.
When I look at our code, I see some code smells and bad engineering practices, like ...
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5answers
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Is there a name for the concept of a hierarchy of many short methods in a class
A refactoring I commonly do is where I come across a large method such as
public void doSomething() {
// do First thing
doPartA1();
doPartA2();
//now something else
...
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6answers
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What payoffs have you seen from taking care of technical debt?
This article on technical debt has some good points, including:
Working on the "technical matters" works best when it is driven by stories. The code base is probably in need of work everywhere, ...
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11answers
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Should you fix preexisting defects while working on something else?
Conundrum: During the course of working on a new feature or fixing a defect, you find a legacy problem in code. What should you do? Fix it and risk altering the behavior of the code. It has either ...
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Does anyone else have a refactoring problem?
It seems like after I've written a significant amount of code I get this anxious feeling like I haven't done it in the best possible way, and I end up continuously refactoring and spending way too ...
