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When testing is stuck in a loop, use these 10 techniques to help teams rethink regression, test components in isolation and improve quality fast. By Matt Heusser, Excelon Development Published: 28 Jan 2026 In the modern testing landscape, the shape of testing can vary greatly from organization to organization. Still, most teams simply fall into repeatable patterns, without taking a hard look at what is possible and what should change.

Article 2 of 3 Part of: How and when to refactor code At some point, all developers must decide whether to refactor code or rewrite it. Base this choice on factors such as architectural soundness, time, money and goals. By Matt Heusser, Excelon Development Published: 10 Jun 2025 When application source code becomes unmanageable due to patches, bad maintenance, freewheeling feature additions or other consequences of long operation, developers must either refactor or rewrite.

APIs often provide development teams the support needed to deal with many microservices-specific problems. For instance, they can act as a mechanism that decouples the business logic from the user interface, replicate application functions for reuse, or even isolate functionality for simplified testing and deployment. Unfortunately, APIs can also introduce problems.