Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior.
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Designing and refactoring of payment logic
Im currently working on an application that helps users to coordinate dinner clubs and all related accounting. (A dinner club is where people in a group, take turns to cook for the rest and then you ...
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To rewrite or slowly refactor old C++ project
Our team has recently inherited a relatively large project from another company (~250k lines). It was developed using C++Builder and we intend to port the Ui side to Qt. Most of the Ui code is ...
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Refactorable God v.s. too many classe [duplicate]
So I have this problem: in order to structure my code hierarchically, for every new tiny thing, I create a separate sub-folder, file, class ... and in it one 10-line function. It is an anti-pattern.
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Until what point should I refactor? [duplicate]
What do you think until what point should a programmer refactor the code?
Basically having
def method
do_something
end
Pieces of code would be handy, but they increase spaghetti code until the ...
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Why does the tool offer to change the code - just because it can?
Resharper (or is it Visual Studio - it's a yellow light bulb with a tiny red filament in it) offers to "invert if" on this code:
if (tItems >= 0)
{
return tItems;
}
SetTotalItemsAndTotalAmt();
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Is there a tool that visually represents all the potential paths to a particular piece of code? [closed]
As an example of what I need and why I want it, I am trying to determine how a certain value (CurTotal) is getting set (wrongly). I've come up with these notes to myself to try to understand just what ...
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Get rid of long/Complex if..else statements using Chain of Responsibility?
I've an HttpHandler, which allows users to login to a system by passing in an encrypted code.
Inside the ProcessRequest it performs quite a few steps.
Retrieve the encrypted code from request ...
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Is there a term for reusing code by retyping it?
I built a prototype ("one to throw away") a while ago, and I'm rebuilding it now as an alpha. My goodness, it's been worth it.
I reused some of the prototype code by copy-pasting then modifying it, ...
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What to name a new interface that is replacing an existing one?
We're redesigning our application's plugin interface, so we're using the Adapter pattern with our proof-of-concept design to show that the new interface will function without committing to using it in ...
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Is it better to have one method that takes a bool as a parameter or two methods with different names? [duplicate]
I'm writing a factory class for a Selenium Web Driver and I came across a choice that I couldn't figure out which is cleaner. Having two methods with the same parameter.
GetWebDriver(string browser)
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Refactored to a fancy global variable?
I am currently refactoring an application that i built in JavaScript.
The application uses a starting hour and a total working hour count in order to construct a timetable for daily, weekly and ...
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When to fracture a web application design into multiple products
Have you had this problem?
You are building a complex web application for a target market, and after a while you reach a point in complexity where you can't decide if you are building more than one ...
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I have to compromise: DRY, or Command-Query-Separation?
I was recently refactoring a method that was both a command and a query method.
After separating it into a one command method and one query method, I found that there are now multiple places in the ...
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How do you create documentation when there is none? [duplicate]
I have recently inherited a large, legacy system with a complex codebase that has a lack of documentation. I'm the sole internal developer embedded with the core users, taking some responsibility from ...
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Refactoring the shipping application code to use DDD factories
I was trying to find examples for using DDD factories and I came across the shipping application from Eric Evans' book.
However when I checked the BookingService the code to create a Cargo had this ...
