Here Be Dragons
So, you’ve been tasked with making a change in a legacy code base. Maybe you need to pass a new field through a tech stack that you are not familiar with. Or perhaps you want to kill off an old feature once and for all. Whatever the reason, you know you will be sailing into the unknown. The waters are murky and you may find yourself surrounded by classes whose line counts run into many thousands. Hundreds of files are organized into modules that made sense many moons ago, but these signposts are no longer helpful. Developers who have traveled…
