Consolidate common processing found in two classes into one place. This is a modification that leaves only the unique ...

I gave an AI agent one prompt and scored the codebase after every commit. Health 50 to 61, 10,000 lines gone, and a hard stop where tests ran out.

This is about a time I reviewed a fairly large refactoring PR.I asked the PR author to explain what kind of refactoring they ...

Every day, software developers make decisions that they later regret. They may be tiny decisions, such as the name to use for a variable, or they may be major decisions such as the metaphor to use for ...

When software developer and industry thought leader Martin Fowler first approached the topic of refactoring in his book — Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code — it was the late 1990s and ...

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 ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. As state and local governments work to modernize their IT systems, ...