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Use these structured prompting techniques to improve the quality and usefulness of AI output in testing workflows ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...

For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lightweight Mikado method opens up a structured way to make significant changes even to complex legacy code.