Refactoring

Refactoring

Software accumulates technical debt, structural design deficiencies, over time. To keep software maintainable, we have to adapt its internal structure, its factoring, regularly.

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Refactoring (4:24).

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Wikipedia entries:

• Duplicate code Links to an external site.
• Technical debt Links to an external site.
  
• Code refactoring Links to an external site.

Reflect

• What's the biggest code base you have ever worked on?
• What is the best/worst software structure you have dealt with?
• What types of refactorings are you familiar with?