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Matt Eland
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Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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Reviewing and testing our refactored code

While we didn’t modify a lot of code in this chapter, the code we did change shrunk in size, thus becoming easier to read, understand, and modify in the process.

This is why we refactor. Refactoring should actively improve the maintainability of our applications and pay down strategic pieces of technical debt that threaten to introduce bugs and delays in the future.

Refactored code

The final refactored code from this chapter is available in the https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Refactoring-with-Csharp repository inside the Chapter03/Ch3RefactoredCode folder.

Since the art of refactoring involves changing the form of code without changing its functionality, we must test the application before moving on.

We’ll talk more about manual and automated tests in Chapter 6, but for now, run the tests by selecting the Test menu at the top of Visual Studio and then clicking Run All Tests.

This will show Test Explorer and...

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Matt Eland

Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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