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by admin
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5/2/03 12:50:22 PM
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New And he's wrong about that.
The reason is that once you touch WORKING code, it becomes NON-WORKING code, and the changes you make (once you get it working again) will never be known. It is basically a programmer\ufffds ego trip and nothing else.
This is what regression testing is all about. So you can clean things up (which means making things more flexible, more efficient, easier to maintain, etc.) without turning it into non-working code.
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Post #100,052
by static
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5/2/03 10:58:14 PM
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New I quite agree.
Being able to fearlessly and mercilessly refactor - he got that term right, at least - is one of the benefits of [link|http://www.extremeprogramming.org/|Extreme Programming]. This is possible when you have automated unit-tests - a variation of your regression tests. It's quite a buzz to completely rewrite a module and know you're not breaking anything because the unit test still runs. Especially when you achieve an order of magnitude of speed increase at the same timne. :-)

Wade.

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Is it enough to breathe
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     Re-rewriting .Net code? - (johnu) - (11) - May 2, 2003, 11:16:11 AM EDT
         Wouldn't be the first time. And Cringely on rewriting. - (Another Scott) - (8) - May 2, 2003, 12:31:22 PM EDT
             I couldn't disagree more - (drewk) - (3) - May 2, 2003, 12:46:58 PM EDT
                 Heh. - (admin) - (1) - May 2, 2003, 12:51:14 PM EDT
                     Heh indeed! Thank you both - (jb4) - May 2, 2003, 01:40:27 PM EDT
                 I've had to - (jbrabeck) - May 2, 2003, 04:38:51 PM EDT
             And he's wrong about that. - (admin) - (1) - May 2, 2003, 12:50:22 PM EDT
                 I quite agree. - (static) - May 2, 2003, 10:58:14 PM EDT
             So what does *this* mean? - (tjsinclair) - May 2, 2003, 07:10:45 PM EDT
             Just received an answer from Bob. - (admin) - May 5, 2003, 09:45:21 AM EDT
         Re: Re-rewriting .Net code? - (johnu) - (1) - May 6, 2003, 08:06:22 AM EDT
             It could be a lower level thing - (altmann) - May 6, 2003, 06:05:37 PM EDT

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