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Agile ALM—Opposites Attract
Agile and ALM are two terms that you don’t often see side by side. To most developers, agile means team interaction, customer collaboration, dynamism, and responsiveness to change. In contrast, ALM seems to imply the opposite of agile, with echoes of rigid procedures, inflexibility, and top-down process control. But are the agile and ALM approaches as contradictory as they first appear to be?
Revisiting Refactoring
Refactoring is one of the cornerstones of the technical agile development practices. It is the mechanism that allows the design and architecture of a system to evolve over time. It is one third of the red-green-refactor loop and the core of test-driven development (TDD). But does it really deliver on its promises?

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Transform Your Software

Bring out the best in your code. Systematic code transformations are an important tool for test-driven development. Refactoring and generalization—common code transformations in TDD—improve the code while preserving its behavior and broaden the capabilities of the software. Each technique has its place, and together they help make TDD effective.

Clean and Green
All code is not created equal. Learn from a master of the craft how to spot bad code and mold it into good. Mike Clark explains how to clean up your code clutter by removing duplication.
A Look at IntelliJ IDEA3

Get the scoop on this refactoring tool from JetBrains.

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