I have been there for couple of times now. First thing, I look into it to how to get refactor if i see something here.
Luckily, I had one of the best mentor, who taught me how to refactor the any piece of code without failing.
It is really works,If this code base test cases. If doesn't have test cases, I think we have take one step back and do small functionality at time and move on from there.
Bad of big code repositories is mostly, they are still using some version of framework which is most uncomfortable to new bee for getting their head around.
Luckily, I had one of the best mentor, who taught me how to refactor the any piece of code without failing.
It is really works,If this code base test cases. If doesn't have test cases, I think we have take one step back and do small functionality at time and move on from there.
Bad of big code repositories is mostly, they are still using some version of framework which is most uncomfortable to new bee for getting their head around.