The Change Budget: A Decision Table for Messy Repo Refactors
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The Change Budget: A Decision Table for Messy Repo Refactors You inherited a messy module. It has no tests. It has four callers. You still need to change it. Most refactors fail at the wrong granularity. They move structure and behavior at the same time. The result is a broken commit and a long rev…
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The Change Budget: A Decision Table for Messy Repo Refactors