Timeline for Do We Have a Responsiblity to Improve Old Code?
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| Feb 18, 2012 at 16:18 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by tdammers | ||
| Feb 18, 2012 at 16:14 | comment | added | Garrett Hall | @John any non-trivial refactoring risks unintentionally changing behavior, especially when there are no regression tests in place. | |
| Feb 18, 2012 at 3:23 | comment | added | Bernard | @John: Yes, that is the purpose of refactoring: improve the code but maintain the behavior. | |
| Feb 18, 2012 at 0:34 | comment | added | Manfred | could you be more specific what you mean by 'refactoring causes a regression'? Is the purpose of refactoring to improve the design of your software without changing its behavior? Can you give an example? | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 22:10 | history | edited | Garrett Hall | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 339 characters in body |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 22:03 | history | edited | Garrett Hall | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 339 characters in body |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 21:58 | history | answered | Garrett Hall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |