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Refactoring

The process of improving internal attributes of a software product (e.g., readability, maintainability, data structures for efficient performance) without modifying any of its existing external functionality.
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What is CSE Legacy Code?

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What is CSE Software Refactoring?

  Refactoring

AI Coding Agents: What Works and What Doesn't

  Documentation, Development Tools, Refactoring, Testing, Peer Code Review

Better Scientific Software Tutorial Site

  Software Engineering, Online Learning, In-Person Learning, Software Process Improvement, Development Tools, Refactoring, Licensing, Testing

Can You Teach an Old Code New Tricks?

  Design, Refactoring, Software Engineering

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

  Refactoring, Design

Coding Conventions

  Software Engineering, Refactoring, Design, Peer Code Review

FLASH5 Refactoring and PSIP

  Software Process Improvement, Refactoring, Testing

Long-Term Software Gardening Strategies for Cultivating Scientific Development Ecosystems

  Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Software Sustainability, Development Tools, Refactoring

Porting Codes to New Architectures

  High-Performance Computing (HPC), Performance at Leadership Computing Facilities, Performance Portability, Refactoring

Survey on Refactoring Practices in the Development of Scientific Software

  Refactoring

Technical Debt in Practice: How to Find It and Fix It

  Software Engineering, Software Process Improvement, Projects and Organizations, Requirements, Design, Software Sustainability, Refactoring, Issue Tracking, Release and Deployment, Documentation, Peer Code Review, Testing, Continuous Integration Testing

The Lazy Approach to Developing Scientific Research Software

  Software Engineering, Requirements, Refactoring

Things You Should Never Do, Part I

  Software Engineering, Requirements, Release and Deployment, Refactoring

Webinar: Using Generative AI for Coding Tasks in Scientific Software

  Software Engineering, Testing, Refactoring, Online Learning

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

  Programming Languages, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Reproducibility, Refactoring

When Not to Use Agile in Scientific Software Development

  Software Engineering, Refactoring

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

  Refactoring, Design, Testing