Refactoring

Godfrey Nolan

RIIS LLC

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler

Refactoring (noun): a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behavior.    

"Refactor (verb): to restructure software by applying a series of refactorings without changing its observable behavior". 
                                  - Martin Fowler

"Technical debt ..[is]... the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer".            - WikiPedia