Refactoring to Modernize Java Applications using AI

Speaker: Venkat Subramaniam (https://x.com/venkat_s, https://agiledeveloper.com/web)

Bio:

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., an instructional professor at the University of Houston, and creator of dev2next and Arc of AI conferences.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at <https://www.agiledeveloper.com>.

Abstract:

IDEs have provided ways to refactor code for a long time now. In spite of their effectiveness, that journey is arduous and time consuming. Reluctance to refactor increases the cost of development. However, refactoring for the sake of doing so can lead to greater productivity loss as well. In this presentation we will take a highly interactive approach. We will take an example codebase, observe the modernization opportunities in it, then use AI to refactor the code from the point of view of modernization, then observe the effectiveness of the tool and how we can guide it along for better quality and improved results.

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