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 ...

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Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more Legacy code is stinky. Every decent developer would like to refactor it, and in order to refactor it, one ideally ...

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 ...

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According to Gartner, a legacy application is “an information system that may be based on outdated technologies, but is critical to day-to-day operations.” “Critical” is the keyword here. Frequently, ...

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 ...