Refactoring

Abstract

Refactoring capabilities are very important when working in the software industry. Anyone who has ever had to overhaul an existing code base has run into issues with changing code. One of the most common examples is moving classes between packages and having to edit the package statements manually at the top of each file. Another example is wanting to delete an element in code (such as a class member or an old utility method) and not knowing if code in your application still makes use of that element.