Refactoring plays a critical role in maintaining a codebase that allows for rapid development, but it’s important to not to view this, and code quality, as an isolated process.

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft shared that Visual Studio IntelliCode now has whole-line code completions and features dynamic refactoring detection. Skip to main content Events Video Special Issues Jobs ...

When you're refactoring legacy code, it doesn't matter if some of the tests you write happen to contradict ideal specifications. What matters is that they test the program's current behavior.

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 ...