Cleaning up a large, legacy Java project

Question

I\'ve been assigned to do some work on a huge Java project, and the influence of several iterations of developers is obvious. There is no standard coding style, formatting, nam

Answer 1

You can use a tool to impose a common format on the source code in the project. Aside from that, see Michael Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code (where "legacy code" is defined to be "code without unit tests"), which describes how to gradually turn legacy code into fully-tested and -testable code.