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

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 ...

In the rush to embrace coding assistants like Amazon CodeWhisperer to generate new code for developers, we haven’t spent much time asking if that code is any good. By some measures, the answer is ...

Overview: LLMs help developers identify and fix complex code issues faster by automatically understanding the full project ...

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All over the world, companies are figuring out how to migrate hundreds or thousands of existing applications to new platforms to take advantage of lower operational costs, higher levels of automation, ...

In which a coworker advocates for "one big refactoring" rather than smaller tests. I suppose it depends on the system and how critical it is. I work for a company that does avionics software and one ...