In software or application development, Code Refactoring refers to reconstructing or rearranging the program source code while maintaining its original functionality. The process aims to improve the ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...

In the rush to embrace coding assistants like Amazon CodeWhisperer to generate new code for developers, we haven’t spent much time asking if that code is any good. By some measures, the answer is ...

When I'm flailing about in code, I often quickly slap something together just to get it working and then go back to clean it up with simpler structures. Real developers commonly refactor their code in ...

Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, looking at patterns and strategies for changing application behavior after it has already been compiled. So far in this ...

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I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

Have you ever used Visual Studio and thought of a clever or useful refactoring that wasn't part of the tooling? Well now, with the Rosyln CTP--Microsoft's test version of a C# compiler that exposes ...

Consider the challenge of updating an organisation’s entire application estate from one version of Java to another, something that may be needed both to maintain IT security and to migrate from an ...

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