diff --git a/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/SpeciminRunner.java b/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/SpeciminRunner.java
index 2c88073e..c22ce570 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/SpeciminRunner.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/SpeciminRunner.java
@@ -166,9 +166,9 @@ public static void performMinimization(
     // correct the types of all related files before adding them to parsedTargetFiles
     JavaTypeCorrect typeCorrecter = new JavaTypeCorrect(root, relatedClass);
     typeCorrecter.correctTypesForAllFiles();
-    Map<@ClassGetSimpleName String, @ClassGetSimpleName String> typeToChange =
+    Map<@ClassGetSimpleName String, @ClassGetSimpleName String> typesToChange =
         typeCorrecter.getTypeToChange();
-    addMissingClass.updateTypes(typeToChange);
+    addMissingClass.updateTypes(typesToChange);
 
     for (String directory : relatedClass) {
       // directories already in parsedTargetFiles are original files in the root directory, we are
@@ -191,17 +191,18 @@ public static void performMinimization(
         // target key will have this form: "path/of/package/ClassName.java"
         String classFullyQualfiedName = target.getKey().replace("/", ".");
         if (!classFullyQualfiedName.endsWith(".java")) {
-          throw new RuntimeException("A Java file directory does not end with .java: " + classFullyQualfiedName);
+          throw new RuntimeException(
+              "A Java file directory does not end with .java: " + classFullyQualfiedName);
         }
         classFullyQualfiedName =
-                classFullyQualfiedName.substring(0, classFullyQualfiedName.length() - 5);
+            classFullyQualfiedName.substring(0, classFullyQualfiedName.length() - 5);
         @SuppressWarnings("signature") // since it's the last element of a fully qualified path
         @ClassGetSimpleName String simpleName =
             classFullyQualfiedName.substring(classFullyQualfiedName.lastIndexOf(".") + 1);
         // If this condition is true, this class is a synthetic class initially created to be a
         // return type of some synthetic methods, but later javac has found the correct return type
         // for that method.
-        if (typeToChange.containsKey(simpleName)) {
+        if (typesToChange.containsKey(simpleName)) {
           continue;
         }
         if (!finder.getUsedClass().contains(classFullyQualfiedName)) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/TargetMethodFinderVisitor.java b/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/TargetMethodFinderVisitor.java
index 14f6445b..c2e6d01d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/TargetMethodFinderVisitor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/TargetMethodFinderVisitor.java
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ public Visitable visit(Parameter para, Void p) {
     if (insideTargetMethod) {
       ResolvedType paraType = para.resolve().getType();
       if (paraType.isReferenceType()) {
-        String paraTypeFullName = paraType.asReferenceType().getTypeDeclaration().get().getQualifiedName();
+        String paraTypeFullName =
+            paraType.asReferenceType().getTypeDeclaration().get().getQualifiedName();
         usedClass.add(paraTypeFullName);
         for (ResolvedType typeVariable : paraType.asReferenceType().typeParametersValues()) {
           String typeVariableFullName = typeVariable.describe();
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/UnsolvedSymbolVisitor.java b/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/UnsolvedSymbolVisitor.java
index 050b5d44..de462e2c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/UnsolvedSymbolVisitor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/specimin/UnsolvedSymbolVisitor.java
@@ -264,31 +264,6 @@ public Visitable visit(PackageDeclaration node, Void arg) {
     return super.visit(node, arg);
   }
 
-  /*
-  @Override
-  public Node visit(ImportDeclaration decl, Void arg) {
-    @SuppressWarnings(
-        "signature") // since this is the content of an import statement, it will be a qualified
-    // class path
-    @FullyQualifiedName String declAsString = decl.getNameAsString();
-    // if there is no jar paths included, every imported class is unsolved, apart from those
-    // belonging to the Java language.
-    if (!classesFromJar.isEmpty() || declAsString.startsWith("java.")) {
-      return super.visit(decl, arg);
-    }
-    UnsolvedClass declaredClass = getSimpleSyntheticClassFromFullyQualifiedName(declAsString);
-    try {
-      createMissingClass(declaredClass);
-      missingClass.add(declaredClass);
-    } catch (RuntimeException e) {
-      // The class file already exists in the codebase
-      return super.visit(decl, arg);
-    }
-    return super.visit(decl, arg);
-  }
-
-   */
-
   @Override
   public Visitable visit(ClassOrInterfaceDeclaration node, Void arg) {
     SimpleName nodeName = node.getName();
@@ -542,7 +517,6 @@ public Visitable visit(MethodDeclaration node, Void arg) {
         // since this method declaration is inside an anonymous class, its parent will be an
         // ObjectCreationExpr
         ((ObjectCreationExpr) parentNode).resolve();
-        nodeType.resolve();
       } catch (UnsolvedSymbolException | UnsupportedOperationException e) {
         SimpleName classNodeSimpleName = ((ObjectCreationExpr) parentNode).getType().getName();
         String nameOfClass = classNodeSimpleName.asString();
@@ -600,9 +574,12 @@ public Visitable visit(MethodCallExpr method, Void p) {
 
   @Override
   public Visitable visit(ClassOrInterfaceType typeExpr, Void p) {
-    // this line is to work around a bug of JavaParser. When a type is called as a class path, such
-    // as com.example.Dog dog, JavaParser will also consider com and com.example as type name. This
-    // bug happens even if the source file of class Dog is present in the codebase.
+    /**
+     * Workaround for a JavaParser bug: When a type is referenced as a class path, like
+     * com.example.Dog dog, JavaParser considers its package components (com and com.example) as
+     * types, too. This issue happens even when the source file of the Dog class is present in the
+     * codebase.
+     */
     if (!isCapital(typeExpr.getName().asString())) {
       return super.visit(typeExpr, p);
     }
@@ -1289,13 +1266,6 @@ public void createMissingClass(UnsolvedClass missedClass) {
         this.rootDirectory + classDirectory + "/" + missedClass.getClassName() + ".java";
     Path filePath = Paths.get(filePathStr);
 
-    // When class paths are not provide, this visitor will attempt to create synthetic classes for
-    // every class imported by the import statements. However, some of those classes might already
-    // exist in the input codebase.
-    if (Files.exists(filePath)) {
-      throw new RuntimeException("File already exists: " + filePath);
-    }
-
     createdClass.add(filePath);
     try {
       Path parentPath = filePath.getParent();