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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Refactoring vs Redesign??? or Restructuring
Is it refactoring or a redesign?
Its a 'big refactoring'.
We spent the last two weeks on refactoring.
You guys are doing redesign and calling it as refactoring.
I am sure that most of us would have come across questions/statements like the above on various occassions. The above statements initially gave me a sense that its the magnitude of the change that differentiates between a refactoring and redesign.
Last evening I had a chance to chat with Martin Fowler regarding this and here is Martin's words.
"Rather than Refactoring vs Redesign I would like to see it Refactoring vs Restructuring. Refactoring is one of the ways to restructure your code. You can restructure your code by rewriting a class also. Refactoring is my preferred way of restructuring. While each transformation(refactoring) will result in a small change, a sequence of transformations(refactorings) can produce a significant restructuring.".
More about refactoring can be found here. ¶ 4:05 AM 0 Comments
Its a 'big refactoring'.
We spent the last two weeks on refactoring.
You guys are doing redesign and calling it as refactoring.
I am sure that most of us would have come across questions/statements like the above on various occassions. The above statements initially gave me a sense that its the magnitude of the change that differentiates between a refactoring and redesign.
Last evening I had a chance to chat with Martin Fowler regarding this and here is Martin's words.
"Rather than Refactoring vs Redesign I would like to see it Refactoring vs Restructuring. Refactoring is one of the ways to restructure your code. You can restructure your code by rewriting a class also. Refactoring is my preferred way of restructuring. While each transformation(refactoring) will result in a small change, a sequence of transformations(refactorings) can produce a significant restructuring.".
More about refactoring can be found here. ¶ 4:05 AM 0 Comments
