Comments on: Yes You Are Making Changes, But That Doesn't Make It Refactoring!

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By: Pramatr

Pramatr — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:47:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments, I’ve updated the post to add a description of what refactoring is, along with the motivation for the post. Hopefully this will clarify my views.

By: TrippleDES

TrippleDES — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:41:00 +0000

The article is an attempt to distinguish refactoring from basic code changing, its an interesting read but there is no mention of what can be classed as refactoring, so for those that dont know here’s what i think refactoring is:Refactoring is cleaning up code in small increments, from wikipedia “In software engineering, refactoring a source code module often means modifying without changing its external behavior, and is sometimes informally referred to as ‘cleaning it up’” I believe the concept is to continously improve the codes design. Its not directly about bug fixing but rather improving the code quality through refactoring implicitly leads to bug fixes.Code cutting, varibale renaming, moving code into appropriate places etc are but a few processes to refactoring.The result of refactoring? Better clean code, readable code, understandable code, easily extendible code, tested code, robust code, efficent code – And a few other things trailed with the word ‘code’.Hope that helps someone.