http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/what-does-refactoring-mean/ technology and the internets Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:40:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/what-does-refactoring-mean/#comment-4823 legalize Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:50:07 +0000 http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/?p=1248#comment-4823 Rewriting code to remove bugs isn't refactoring because you've changed what the code does. Fixing bugs is fixing bugs, not refactoring. Refactoring doesn't change the meaning of the code. There are some who claim that performance improvements are not refactoring either because you've changed the observed behavior. I don't agree with that because the results are the same, you just got the results in a more efficient manner. Rewriting code to remove bugs isn’t refactoring because you’ve changed what the code does. Fixing bugs is fixing bugs, not refactoring. Refactoring doesn’t change the meaning of the code. There are some who claim that performance improvements are not refactoring either because you’ve changed the observed behavior. I don’t agree with that because the results are the same, you just got the results in a more efficient manner.

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