Solutions - Refactoring

Enable C/C++ refactoring as a standard development practice

Make code more understandable

Code bases don't live and die within a single version, or within a single iteration, and an Agile process of constant improvement will make it more likely that the next person to be editing your source won't be you. This means code needs to have a clean and understandable design, making refactoring a necessary daily activity for the Agile software developer. Refactoring code does not alter the functionality of a code base, nor does it add new features. It is used to make a code base more easily understood, cleaner, and friendlier to change - that is, making it easier for other developers and teams to inherit.

Refactor C/C++ early and often

While Java and C# developers enjoy tools that provide automated refactoring, C/C++ developers have not enjoyed the same productivity benefits. Everything from misleading variable names to repetitive code that should be abstracted for simplicity, refactoring allows developers to save significant time by ensuring that code is well designed, coherent, and can be easily picked-up by the next developer who needs to make modifications.

Enable C/C++ refactoring

Leveraging the base of semantics generated from its static analysis engine, Klocwork Insight provides an in-editor capability for C/C++ developers, something that has been available to Java and C# developers for years. This simple, yet compelling feature set quickly becomes second nature for any good developer, allowing you to create not only functionally correct code, but also elegant, maintainable code that is functionally identical but yet has the possibility of being modified by other coders without them needing to understand you perfectly first.

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