Benefits of Refactoring in Agile

 

Claimed Benefits of Refactoring

• Refactoring improves objective attributes of code (length, duplication, coupling and cohesion complexity) that correlate with ease of maintenance

• Refactoring helps code understanding

• Refactoring encourages each developer to think about and understand design decisions, in particular in the context of collective ownership / collective code ownership

• Refactoring favors the emergence of reusable design elements (such as design patterns) and code modules