Code Spelunking: Exploring Cavernous Code Bases

  • Authors:
  • George V. Neville-Neil

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Developer Tools
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Try to remember your first day at your first software job. Do you recall what you were asked to do, after the human resources people were done with you? Were you asked to write a piece of fresh code? Probably not. It is far more likely that you were asked to fix a bug, or several, and to try to understand a large, poorly documented collection of source code.