Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

by Fowler Martin

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

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Design Changes That Are Difficult to Refactor

The other time you should avoid refactoring is when you are close to a deadline.

With refactoring the emphasis changes. You still do upfront design, but now you don’t try to find the solution. Instead all you want is a reasonable solution.

The key is the semantic distance between the method name and the method body.