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One common experience many companies have in the course of supporting software products is that the time and effort required to make customizations vary as the product ages. At first, customizations are easy because new features either mesh nicely with the existing code structure or they are completely new and can be easily added to the existing code. But as the product ages, changes affect other parts of the system, slowing down development and causing problems in seemingly unrelated parts of the product. The good news is that this isn’t an inevitable result of creating software. You can get around many of these problems by regularly refactoring code.

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