Below tips are very useful for Junior/Experienced developers to start of in new company.
- Ask for Project Documentation. (Word doc/ URLs/ Wiki Link)
- Request for Knowledge Transfer Sessions of Project & Domain involved as well as technical architecture (current/future if available), deployment architecture ( if available)
- Get Information of the development/deployment technologies used in the current project & versions of software used.
- Get Access to the software used if copyrighted.
- Bookmark all the important links (Documentation link, Architecture link, Company policies and procedures, URLs for Dev/Test/Other environments)
- Configure the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Ask for source code and its access.
Import the source code and build it. Build should be successful. Resolve issues if any.
Deploy the project locally and hit the URL if available to see if it is deployed successfully working properly.
Good Job!!! You are all set to start working on the project now