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Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new co... by toolslive on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:10PM (#17358011)
People have been measuring the cost of refactoring versus rewrite from scratch, but the results are, as so often in the industry of software development mostly ignored. Anyway, there (obviously) is a tilting point.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new co... by xaedes on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#17358218)
But what are the results?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new co... by toolslive on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:09PM (#17358663)
if more than 25% of a component is to be revised, it's more efficient and effective to rewrite it from scratch. (It's fact 19 in 55 Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering) which references several sources of it.
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