Guiding Principles for Refactoring

Refactoring is essential for the codebase’s health, but some guidelines should be followed to maximize its benefits.

Luís Soares
CodeX
Published in
8 min readMar 24, 2024

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Understanding refactoring is beyond day-to-day techniques like extracting code into functions, renaming fields, and inlining variables. It’s essential to recognize the reasons and circumstances for refactoring…

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Luís Soares
CodeX
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I write about automated testing, Lean, TDD, CI/CD, trunk-based dev., user-centric dev, DDD, coding good practices,