Developers inevitably work to a deadline and try different approaches, which can result in artifacts left over in the code. Even if artifacts aren't refactored, developers should still want to go back ...

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 ...

They noted that previous studies have concluded code refactoring improves quality, but most provided no quantitative evidence. "Although, the refactoring is by definition supposed to improve the ...