Refactoring
Refactoring is a technique for restructuring code in a way that you improve the design, but don’t change the its external behaviour.
It is done applying a serie of small transformations to the code (called a “refactor”), and using test to ensure the external behaviour never changes.
Thanks that each refactor is small, if something goes wrong and a test fails, is easy go back, undo the changes, minimizing the probability that a bug can be introduced.
The purpose of refactoring is to make the software easier to understand and modify, not improve the performance.
Why should you refactor?
- Improves the design of software.
- Makes software easier to understand.
- Helps you find bugs.
- Helps you program faster.
External links
Related notes
- When to refactor.
- Flocking rules: A refactoring technique.