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Discussion on: Don't let that huge codebase scare you! Tips and tools to make sense of other people's code

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cryptonkid

Adding to all the above points and comments one can even use the tools like eclipse to search in all the code bases (should be imported into a comman workplace). Use find in all the files. I generally import the project on eclipse and search based on the keyword. I also use git history to search through the comments with the key words. One can even use JIRA to search for the story or task which has keyword.
My personal startergy is use
1) jira first to find all the story and tasks
2) then use the commit ids to look into the files that got checked in.
3) look into the eclipse to find out the files.
4) Do the static code flow.
5) Put debug point then to find the correct flow.