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Ralph Wigum keeps coding work moving by reading prior outputs, ideal for greenfield specs and batch cleanup, giving steady, ...

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 ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...

When I'm flailing about in code, I often quickly slap something together just to get it working and then go back to clean it up with simpler structures. Real developers commonly refactor their code in ...

Rupesh Dabbir is a Software Engineering Manager at Google with over a decade of experience building highly scalable systems in the cloud. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming ...

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