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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 ...

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 ...

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...