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Resources for Code and Database Refactoring

by scrumexpert in Agile & Scrum Resources 0

Martin Fowler defined refactoring as a ” disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior”. In the days of Agile development where code is delivered after one or two-week cycles, you start quickly to deal with “legacy” code, what was known as “maintenance” for projects that had longer delivery time frames. share share share share 

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