One thing that most application developers and testers eventually encounter -- especially when working with complex applications or across large teams -- is code smells. "Smelly" code means that the ...

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When application source code becomes unmanageable due to patches, bad maintenance, freewheeling feature additions or other consequences of long operation, developers must either refactor or rewrite.

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The goal of code refactoring is to fight software entropy and improve nonfunctional attributes of the software. For example, refactoring can help make software code more efficient, resolve bugs, and ...

A software developer’s job is never done. They don’t always get their code right on the first time, and it doesn’t always look pretty at first glance. Developers have to constantly modify, improve, ...

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 ...

Software modernization often involves 'code refactoring', so organizations must ensure they don't introduce any new weak links in the [software] toolchain. The jury is somewhat out on software ...

As a CEO in 2021, your organization likely has some type of proprietary software. And at some point, either through changing market conditions or lags in performance, your CTO will tell you that ...