That “just changing a word” is easy and quick. A codebase is an iceberg. Management only really typically understands the surface, but there is a disproportionate amount of ice under the water.
I had to change all instances of a label from a word to an abbreviation. Because we don’t have i18n set up in the app, it ended up affecting 55 different files. I did my best to consolidate into everything calling a common function, but it’s far from perfect. 55 files changed because management said “oh this word here should be shorter”.
piping
findtosedwith some possibletr,awkor perl sprinkle is your friend** not discounting the risk of ending up wasting more time than planned trying to get one complex regex right
Oh I used some interesting IDE-based searching. QA closed the ticket so apparently I got them all! Haha.
