From the course: Agile Software Development: Dealing with Legacy Code and Technical Debt

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Familiarize yourself

Familiarize yourself

From the course: Agile Software Development: Dealing with Legacy Code and Technical Debt

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Familiarize yourself

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- [Instructor] Suppose you've just been handed a code base that you've never worked on before. You're probably wondering how you should get started and there is no one who can answer any questions that you might have. That's a very intimidating and overwhelming situation, but you can get through it. You just need to start hunting for the information that you need. There are a few things you should look for right away. How to build and run the application in a development environment. You need to know how to build and run a development version of the code that you're working on. You'll need to discover if there are any third-party applications or libraries that you need to install to get things going. The information you'll need is most frequently found in a README file in the project's directory. If there's no README file, or if it doesn't help, then look for other text files in the project's directory tree. Sometimes…

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