What do you think about RefactoringManifesto.org?
- by Gan
Quite some time ago, on December 19 2010, a site called RefactoringManifesto.org was launched. The site is to voice concerns about refactoring. It lists ten main points as shown below (head over the website to see more details):
Make your products live longer!
Design should be simple so that it is easy to refactor.
Refactoring is not rewriting.
What doesn't kill it makes it stronger.
Refactoring is a creative challenge.
Refactoring survives fashion.
To refactor is to discover.
Refactoring is about independence.
You can refactor anything, even total crap.
Refactor – even in bad times!
What do you think about this? Would you sign the manifesto? If not, why?