You have a legacy system that consists of 1000 LoC, the code is poorly commented, messed up, and contains a lot of poor design and implementation decision. The only thing that is clear is what the code is doing. You are asked to refactor the code, what should you do? 1   The easiest fastest path to take is to write a new version of the code, you know what the code is doing, design and implement a new solution. 2   Do what you are asked to do, refactor it. It's a typical refactoring scenario 3   Give the task to someone else 4   Pretend that you refactored it, but don't becuase you can't refactor a code that you don't understand. Just add few comments here and there! A method is long if it's LoC exceeds 20 True False

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You have a legacy system that consists of 1000 LoC, the code is poorly commented, messed up, and contains a lot of poor design and implementation decision. The only thing that is clear is what the code is doing. You are asked to refactor the code, what should you do?

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The easiest fastest path to take is to write a new version of the code, you know what the code is doing, design and implement a new solution.

2

 

Do what you are asked to do, refactor it. It's a typical refactoring scenario

3

 

Give the task to someone else

4

 

Pretend that you refactored it, but don't becuase you can't refactor a code that you don't understand. Just add few comments here and there!

A method is long if it's LoC exceeds 20

  1. True
  2. False

 

 

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