Software Development Tutorials about refactoring

AI, Determinism, Code Generation and Refactoring

softdevtube.com — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:25:06 +0000

At this point, we are past the initial hype cycle of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many of us have tried to figure out where AI tools fit in the development process. Initially there were hopes and fears that we could easily generate code from prompts and have AI tools perform unguided …

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Book Review: Refactoring Ruby Edition

softdevtube.com — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:14:37 +0000

Drawing on the original Refactoring book that used Java as the programming language for examples, this new edition of Refactory Ruby explains how to apply refactoring techniques in a Ruby context, adding some refactoring that are specific to this language. Instead of trying to give a definition of refactoring, the …

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How to Get 100% Cleanly Refactored Tested Code

softdevtube.com — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:45:59 +0000

In this guided demo, we are going to look at 3 different software engineering techniques that are remarkably powerful in combination to cut through legacy code without having to go through the bother of reading or understanding it. The techniques are: * Combination Testing: to get 100% test coverage quickly …

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The Natural Course of Refactoring

softdevtube.com — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:40:14 +0000

Doing refactoring seems to be an obvious programming practice. In many software development teams, this is not being done at all. “We have no time to do it!”. “We are not allowed”. “We don’t know where to start and how to do it pragmatically”. Many programmers are familiar with classic …

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Code as a Crime Scene

softdevtube.com — Wed, 28 May 2014 17:01:37 +0000

Taming complexity is a challenge of every large-scale software project. Traditional metrics and techniques are inadequate. That leaves us with intuition. And human intuition is unequaled when it comes to assessing the quality of a design. But intuition is prone to social and cognitive biases that are hard to avoid. …

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Retrofitting a Software Architecture

softdevtube.com — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:32:12 +0000

We can do without architecture early on, but at some point a clearly communicated architecture offers big productivity benefits to developers who otherwise drown in the expanding implementation-level detail. When you realize you are heading for a Big Ball of Mud, you have 3 choices – start over, suffer on, …

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How To Approach Refactoring

softdevtube.com — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:51:45 +0000

As programmers we have learned and practiced various refactoring techniques, you have pulled up methods, pushed down fields, extracted superclass,… Yet if you feel that you or your team can use something more fundamental, something more basic to make better use of these techniques, then this interactive session is for …

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Beheading the Software Beast

softdevtube.com — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:08:57 +0000

For any code base there comes a time when you want to change it. But if you just steam ahead making changes that break the code and then fixing errors, a common situation is that every fix or change creates several more errors. It feels as if you have picked …

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Refactoring with Python Tools for Visual Studio

softdevtube.com — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:51:59 +0000

A short demo of the refactoring capabilities of Python Tools for Visual Studio. Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free and open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft’s Developer Division. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code …

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Refactoring in Eclipse

softdevtube.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:01:27 +0000

This short videos shows how you can implement closures in Java. Video Producer / Source Code: http://pettergraff.blogspot.com/2010/11/closures-in-java.html

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