Visual Studio Code's monthly release cadence continues to stream a new supply of goodies in each iteration, with the latest featuring improved code refactoring, color picker, automatic tag closing and ...

Each of these code refactoring techniques can end up making the code brittle and hard to extend in the future: There is a limit to refactoring similar functions to a single one, as some problems are ...

Refactoring and analyzing code at scale requires more than quick suggestions. It requires precision, dependability, and broad visibility across a codebase—all areas where GenAI, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you're refactoring legacy code, it doesn't matter if some of the tests you write happen to contradict ideal specifications. What matters is that they test the program's current behavior.