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How much refactoring should I be doing?
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<p>I watched a webinar recently, and one of the panellists asked, "How much refactoring should I be doing?".</p>
<p>The reply was, "More than you're doing now.".</p>
<p>It was quite tongue-in-cheek, but I agree that, in general, code isn't refactored enough.</p>
<p>One main reason is a fear of introducing regressions, and to avoid that, you need a good automated test suite.</p>
<p>If you break the existing functionality whilst refactoring, you want the test suite to fail so you can identify and fix the regression.</p>
<p>If the test suite passes, you can release the new code.</p>
<p>How many tests and how much coverage do you need? There's no specfic answer - enough for you to be confident everything still works.</p>
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<p>I watched a webinar recently, and one of the panellists asked, "How much refactoring should I be doing?".</p>
<p>The reply was, "More than you're doing now.".</p>
<p>It was quite tongue-in-cheek, but I agree that, in general, code isn't refactored enough.</p>
<p>One main reason is a fear of introducing regressions, and to avoid that, you need a good automated test suite.</p>
<p>If you break the existing functionality whilst refactoring, you want the test suite to fail so you can identify and fix the regression.</p>
<p>If the test suite passes, you can release the new code.</p>
<p>How many tests and how much coverage do you need? There's no specfic answer - enough for you to be confident everything still works.</p>
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