April 22, 2020

Large-Scale Refactorings — given the recent refactoring-related muses, a respondent asked me to talk about large or larger scale refactoring work. (I love it when people’s questions trigger my writing. Please do ask these things.) First things first, “large scale refactoring” is really a colloquial expression, a shorthand we sometimes use, but in my experience there is no such thing, for two reasons. The first reason is definitional. Remember, refactoring doesn’t mean “changing my design”, it means “changing my design […]