“Refactoring is the process of taking a running program and adding to its value, not by changing its behavior but by giving it more of these qualities that enable us to continue developing at speed.” – Kent Beck

A new developer gets his hands on an existing source code, and soon your hear this complaint : “Code is a mess, it must be refactored !” Sometimes, that’s true, and some other times, that’s a great recipe to end up with a code as bad as – or even worse than – the initial code. To decide if a refactoring is required, here are ten questions you should ask yourself (or the developer asking for the refactoring): Continue reading →