JavaScript and TypeScript refactoring is also improved, with new "extract method" and "extract function" capabilities that let a developer highlight some repetitive code, for example ... a little ...

Even if artifacts aren't refactored, developers should still want to go back into their code and see how to improve it. Refactoring helps keep costs down in the long run, too, as it makes the code ...

We’re on the brink of a seismic shift in software development, with AI-powered code generation and refactoring tools positioned to reshape how developers write, maintain, and optimize code.

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 ...

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 ...

If the code is covered by comprehensive unit and regression tests, this refactoring is even easier. I have found that refactoring of unfamiliar complex code is much more difficult. In this blog ...

From Sri Lanka comes an academic report saying you probably shouldn't even bother -- if code quality is your primary concern. The researchers defined refactoring as "the process of improving the ...

For example, a very simple refactoring would be to replace a piece of code that previously required a comment with an invocation of a method whose name conveys the information that used to be in ...

Microsoft’s decision to deliver no-cost refactoring support to Visual Basic 2005 was in direct response to community feedback; it will enable developers to simplify and restructure source code, making ...

"Writing tests makes things harder because there's more code involved overall" is a simplistic, and very wrong, attitude. Second, by all means expend your refactoring, testing, and improvement ...