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Maybe this article can help: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/deleting-code.html http://nedbatchelder.com/text/deleting-code.html Also, do you have a clear data model of your application? If you have a clear data model of your application, with the right foreign keys among tables, then almost everything the application does is INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. When you can have the data model in your mind, then you can understand what the application should do and start deleting code. Edit: Is it the problem that the client keeps extending the requisites? Is it clear in the contract what was going to be in the application and what not?