Questions tagged [refactoring]
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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How to design extensible data aggregation code to avoid manual updates in multiple places?
I have a data aggregation function that collects statistics from multiple sources. The problem is that whenever I add a new metric, I need to manually update the code in three different places, which ...
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Is there a reason "replace conditional with table" isn't a standard refactoring?
I'm preparing a lecture where I will start with a many-branched conditional statement and replace it with a table. For example, I could start with: function getMonthName(monthNumber) { if (...
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Refactoring a legacy codebase with a god Repository and incomplete Clean Architecture [duplicate]
I'm currently working on a large legacy project that tried to implement Clean Architecture combined with MVVM, but unfortunately didn't fully adhere to the principles. One major problem: The ...
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Refactoring a codebase from manual memory management to RAII
Edit: @Ben Cottrell's comment said this was similar to a question about spaghetti code. While both questions involve large codebases, mine addresses a specific technical pattern: manual memory ...
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What is the root cause of a proliferation of "null checks"?
I work with a lot of Groovy code. One feature of the language is the "safe navigation operator" (?), which I think of as an inline null check. There are many things about Groovy that I like, ...
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Refactoring the application with correct SemVer approach
Suppose I have an application with version 1.2.3. If I refactor my application to remove deprecated calls while maintaining the same functionality and API as in version 1.2.3, what version number ...
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Is it still "feature envy" if the state to make decision or the action to take after asking the state involves other classes to participate?
According to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/212130/432039, if a class asks another class for the state, and then call methods of that class, it is called "feature envy", eg: ...
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Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, how do I fix it?
Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. It happened over years because the php framework is evolving and my team members come and go, although I won't say we ...
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