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"I want to build this feature with high quality."I once heard an engineer say that during a meeting about a new feature. The ...

This is about a time I reviewed a fairly large refactoring PR.I asked the PR author to explain what kind of refactoring they had done. While listening to the explanation, I skimmed through the diffs ...

When software developer and industry thought leader Martin Fowler first approached the topic of refactoring in his book — Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code — it was the late 1990s and ...

Every day, software developers make decisions that they later regret. They may be tiny decisions, such as the name to use for a variable, or they may be major decisions such as the metaphor to use for ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. As state and local governments work to modernize their IT systems, ...

One thing that most application developers and testers eventually encounter -- especially when working with complex applications or across large teams -- is code smells. "Smelly" code means that the ...

A software developer’s job is never done. They don’t always get their code right on the first time, and it doesn’t always look pretty at first glance. Developers have to constantly modify, improve, ...