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 ...

For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

Refactoring is a vital part of software code maintenance. This restructuring process improves the code's readability and extensibility -- it might even address looming flaws before users experience ...

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 ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...

We’re on the brink of a seismic shift in software development, with AI-powered code generation and refactoring tools positioned to reshape how developers write, maintain, and optimize code.