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A recent academic study raises some questions about how useful and how important refactoring really is. The researchers found that refactoring didn’t seem to make code measurably easier to understand or change, or even measurably cleaner (measured by cyclomatic complexity, depth of inheritance, class coupling or lines of code). But as other people have discussed, ...