• million@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Refactoring is something that should be constantly done in a code base, for every story. As soon as people get scared about changing things the codebase is on the road to being legacy.

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      Only if the code base is well tested.

      Edit: always add tests when you change code that doesn’t have tests.