Chapter 13Practice 9: Refactor Legacy Code
Refactoring is restructuring or repackaging the internal structure of code without changing its external behavior.
Imagine you’re where I was a few years ago, saying to your manager that you want the whole team to spend two weeks, a full iteration, refactoring code. My manager said to me, “Good. What new features are you going to give me?”
And I had to say, “Wait a minute. I’m talking about refactoring. Refactoring is changing the internal structure but not changing the behavior. I’m giving you no new features.”
He looked at me and asked, “Why do you want to do this?”
What should I say?
Software developers are faced with this situation too often. Sometimes we don’t quite know what to say, because ...
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