The Ten Commandments Of Refactoring
- Armand Halbert tl;dr: Thou shalt: (1) Have a comprehensive suite of tests. (2) Take small steps. (3) Run tests frequently. (4) Use continuous integration. (5) Not add extra functionality while refactoring. (6) Refactor often. (7) Automate refactoring. (8) Not prematurely optimize. (9) not suffer duplicated code. (10) Not suffer excessively long functions, or excessively large classes.featured in #480
Avoid Rewriting A Legacy System From Scratch, By Strangling It
- Nicolas Carlo tl;dr: Instead of starting from scratch (1) have the new code direct to the old (2) re-implement each behavior on the new codebase (3) slowly delete the old code. Nicolas gives an example of this in action.featured in #174
Paying Technical Debt - How to Rescue Legacy Code through Refactoring
- Jeoroen Moonsfeatured in #79.1