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Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. As state and local governments work to modernize their IT systems, ...

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 ...

When software developer and industry thought leader Martin Fowler first approached the topic of refactoring in his book — Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code — it was the late 1990s and ...

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