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In my model a user entity has three attributes : ID, name, hasBoyfriend. I want now to change hasBoyfriend to boyFriendsNames which is an array of names . The user entity is used by many services. The ...
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In many projects, software requirements change, sometimes meaning we software engineers have to throw out our work and start over. Heck, we have entire methodologies built around the assumption that ...
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I'm working on a file-synchronization client that currently produces a stream of changes to the underlying filesystem. That is a stream of create/update/move/delete events is produced for each ...
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I like to try out stuff in projects I am in. When something doesn't seem right to me, I like to implement a new thing, see if it fits or not for a while, and then, slowly implement it to the rest of ...
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When we are developing a software supported by continuous integration (CI), I imagine 3 roles working together: Software developers, adding functionality to the system with merges to the repository. ...
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I'm currently working on an online app that includes many fairly new (for the company) features and they fall outside my expertise area by far, which means the edges may not be really well rounded yet....
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Working with the Success Factors OData API and encountering issues whenever the schema is modified. For example this morning my code broke because a new column was added to provide new functionality. ...
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I know questions like this has been asked before. But none of them truly answered me. How to keep a big and complex software product maintainable over the years? How do you organize highly customized ...
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I am new to a team developing a very large web application. Prior to my start, the team had 0 automation in place and just did everything by hand. This was possible because they were only a team of 2. ...
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We are using agile scrum methodologies for developing and maintaining a product. Since we are a product company, we do not work with customer directly on day to day basis, but instead communicate with ...
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We have an application where the customer has changed their mind about a large area of functionality and this area requires a large amount of re-work. Whilst the re-work itself is not an issue, it ...
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I ask this question based on the fact that currently my environment is under constant change due to the type of work we do. We do not always work on a project bases we often have smaller changes that ...
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Every VCS that I've seen includes a means (and sometimes requires you) to make a log of what a particular commit does. If this history is being properly kept, what is the purpose of manually keeping ...
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A friend of mine is working for a small company on a project every developer would hate: he's pressured to release as quickly as possible, he's the only one who seem to care about technical debt, the ...
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Is it a common or normal practice to encounter schema changes, especially renamed or removed columns, in a production database, without having been notified of the change? If unexpected schema ...
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I'm assigned to a project where the goal is to update an existing software. This software was developed in a totally ad hoc manner, which means that any documentation generated is outdated, confused ...
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As our client request, we are proceeding to change the base of our system. We already have the following structure: A class has many students. (simple typical one - to - many) Now we must change it ...
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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. Generally, when learning about Object Oriented ...
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Obviously, testing methods are language-independent. An integration test stays an integration test no matter what the technology. But platforms implement some kinds of testing support. And the ...
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We've probably all been in the situation where you'd like to alert your team members to some change ("I changed X, so now it's running every hour instead of every day"). But the change is non-urgent, ...
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There's one thing I've always wondered when reading about all this "agile development" stuff here on SE and other sites: In "traditional" software engineering, you collect the user's requirements, ...
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I have been working for a big company (8000+ employees) for almost 2 years now, and was hired just after I finished my study course. Everyone here has to deal daily with legacy code which is often ...
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I've often run on this problem. Now I am working on a team of 4 and we built a lot of stuff. We are still finishing somethings and making changes. The problem is that those changes can (and most ...
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It is a way to take inventory of many cgi scripts and web applications in a Software Service environment. It will be a way of creating changelogs and to keep track of which customers have which ...
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Two of the functions our company provides our customers are: Our Development team of ~10 employees creates software products for businesses in a particular industry. The software is used on hundreds ...
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How are companies working on large projects evaluating an impact of a single modification on an existing code base? Since my question is probably not very clear, here's an example: Let's take a ...
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We are working on a large ongoing project that has continual feature changes. These features could take as long as 3 - 4 weeks to complete. This would of course be fine, except the client is always ...
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After working out a project, it might require too much tweaks and changes to get it working right... What can I do to prevent this?
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