"Come and hear how we’ve built an international team of developers to tackle the problems of resurrecting a poorly-understood, gigantic code-base extensively commented in German, with no unit tests, a tangled build infrastructure, and twenty-five years of un-paid technical debt."
Looks like a project I worked on. It's eerie how similar it is (and no, it was not an office app, it was something different).
At least the comments weren't in German, but there were a couple of ones in Dutch. (Not that the comments were of any help)
No unit tests: CHECK. Twenty-five year of technical debt, CHECK. And now we're supposed to make it work in a different platform
So thank you, but I don't plan on touching a monolithical piece of old C++ ever again. Not even with gloves.
Looks like a project I worked on. It's eerie how similar it is (and no, it was not an office app, it was something different).
At least the comments weren't in German, but there were a couple of ones in Dutch. (Not that the comments were of any help)
No unit tests: CHECK. Twenty-five year of technical debt, CHECK. And now we're supposed to make it work in a different platform
So thank you, but I don't plan on touching a monolithical piece of old C++ ever again. Not even with gloves.