Learning Objectives:

In this week of the course, you will learn about:

• “Refactoring”: restructuring of code to improve structure.
• Some common code “smells” (anti-patterns).
• “Technical Debt”: generalization covering all internal problems in a codebase

Lessons:

• Refactoring and Technical Debt Slides PDF, PPT

For Further Reading:

• Book: Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code
• Software Engineering at Google - Chapter 15 (Deprecation)
• Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice (IEEE Software artice from 2012)