Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software has a weight. In a totally abstract digital sense, ...

I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

When I'm flailing about in code, I often quickly slap something together just to get it working and then go back to clean it up with simpler structures. Real developers commonly refactor their code in ...

I refactor my own code frequently. It is often relatively easy to refactor my own code because I know my code well. In fact, the process of maintaining and reading my own code often provides the ...

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The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...