Part 4: Refactoring in the Enterprise

In the fourth and final part of the book, we focus on the social aspects of refactoring: communicating technical debt to others, adopting code standards as an engineering organization, and refactoring in agile environments.

Convincing a large team or organization of the importance of refactoring can be a critical battle, and so this part looks at how software engineers can partner with business leaders. These chapters contain key tips and tricks to ensure that refactoring actually happens and that the right areas of technical debt get refactored first.

We specifically focus on refactoring in an agile environment and how to handle refactoring scenarios that are so large that it feels like a complete rewrite is necessary.

This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 15, Communicating Technical Debt
• Chapter 16, Adopting Code Standards
• Chapter 17, Agile Refactoring