The stack traces are more than twenty deep sometimes.
Haven't counted but I think this is totally not unusual when I work on Java which I consider a modern stack.
Haven't counted but I think this is totally not unusual when I work on Java which I consider a modern stack.
The overarching problem is trying to reinvent the wheel because the management thinks we can do things better than the language designers.
The end result is a buggy and generally bad reimplementation of core libraries. ORM, math, dates, full text search. There's a half-baked custom version of everything.
Only noobs like myself years ago would go ahead and refactor a lot of code during work hours without a good reason.
However when you stumble through something and finally understand the idea behind it (good or bad) then it might be a good time to add a couple of tests.
And when you have a few tests that covers nearby code you can hopefully find the courage to make a few surgical cuts to remove the worst tumors. ;-)