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There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running on production systems worldwide. That’s not ideal for a language over 60 years old and whose primary architects are mostly retired or dead ...

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 ...

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 ...