Here are several approaches to code refactoring, with examples that show how they work and pitfalls to avoid when applying a refactoring pattern. The first and most important refactor is always to ...

Modern code profiling tools can point you directly to the exact lines of code that need refactoring -- or to libraries and other ... the impact of extensions when they load. And for a great example of ...

For example, a very simple refactoring would be to replace a piece of code that previously required a comment with an invocation of a method whose name conveys the information that used to be in ...

If it's GUI code with some logic (~12 lines, 2-3 if/else blocks, for example), a test isn't worth ... be easier to clean them all up in one big refactoring. Extracting out logic could undermine ...

IntelliJ IDEA can inject fragments of SQL, XPath, HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript code into Java String literals. For that matter, it can refactor code across multiple languages; for example ...

When I'm flailing about in code, I often quickly ... issues in refactoring." From where I sit, the study itself might be in for some hot and controversial commentary. It looks like there might be some ...

We’re basically learning on your machine so that we can actually take the repetitive and the tedious tasks and create a refactoring that you can invoke immediately in the context of your code.