Refactoring

Refactoring of existing software will enable you to:

best leverage your past investment, and
to reduce the risk of further additions to your software in the future.

Refactoring is a low risk, incremental development methodology and will save your business money in the long term. It is far more more efficient to utilise what you already have than repeatedly redevelop from scratch. Building on your existing infrastructure and experience maximises your investment.

Why Object Craft? We bring over 50 years of hands-on industry experience in maintaining and improving existing codebases to every project.

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What is refactoring?

Refactoring is the restructuring of software to:

extract full benefits from all existing components,
simplify and clarify the software architecture,
make design insights more explicit,
develop frameworks, and
reduce the development time, cost and risk of further additions to the code.

Benefits of refactoring

Financial Benefits

Full leverage of your existing investment
Reduction in the cost of support and maintance
Shortening of the time required to undertake further developments
Less dependence on programmers who have intimate experience with the code.

Technical Benefits

Ability to do component testing to deliver greater reliability of individual components within the application.
Code is grouped logically making each component comprehensible without having to understand the whole system.
Internal structure of the app is improved making enhancements easier to add and less likely to destabilise the whole app.
Refactoring minimises duplication of code reduces size and machine resources of application

Much of the cost of developing software comes not in developing the initial release but in supporting, enhancing and maintaining your applications over time. Refactoring makes changes easier and less costly - a big win for any company.

What are the symptoms of software that needs refactoring?

The application is unreliable,
The code is difficult to maintain and costly to support,
Deployment of enhancements frequently run over time and over budget,
There is undue dependence on programmers who have intimate experience with the code.