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Published inNov 2023
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Matt Eland
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Matt Eland

Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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Recovering when refactoring goes wrong

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, refactoring efforts will fail. It may be due to gaps in your tests or mistaken assumptions about new technologies, but a certain percentage of your refactoring attempts will fail.

The impact of failed refactorings

Failed refactorings can be both frustrating and a serious challenge to future refactoring work. After all, a significant barrier to refactoring is the belief that legacy code is so brittle that touching it will break it. When you change code and it breaks, you make it harder to change code in the future.

When refactoring fails, you sometimes get to make a quick patch to address the issue you introduced. In this case, the code is refactored and service gets restored, but you’ve lost some of the team’s trust.

Other times, failures in refactoring result in code getting rolled back to the previous version before you refactored it. Sometimes, you’ll get to make changes...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835089989

Author (1)

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Matt Eland

Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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