• 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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      1 year ago

      Been with a lot of codebases that had no unit tests at all and everyone was afraid to change anything because the QA process could take weeks to months.

      The result is you have a codebase that ages like milk.

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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.