This post originated from an RSS feed registered with .NET Buzz by James Avery. Original Post: Prefactoring Feed Title: .Avery Blog Feed URL: /blog/Install/BlogNotConfiguredError.aspx Feed Description: .NET and everything nice Latest .NET Buzz Posts Latest .NET Buzz Posts by James Avery Latest Posts From .Avery Blog

I showed this book to Dave at work the other day and we had a good chuckle…. There is already a term for prefactoring, it’s called design. Oh, and when you describe refactoring as:

“More often than not, developers will stop a large project in the middle of the build stage to rethink and recode the software design so it's cleaner and more efficient. Known as "refactoring," this process eats up valuable time and money. “

You really don’t understand refactoring in the first place. What the author is describing is re-design. Refactoring can be simply explained as:

“ Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior.  Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations.  “ – refactoring.com

Which when used with TDD it eats up neither time nor money. I see Darrell is equally horrified.

-James