You wake up in a sweat. It is the middle of the night. What happened?

You were dreaming. Nightmaring, to be precise. Your project, your baby, your life for the past months, totally crashed. Developers quitting, your excellent features impossible to deliver, your clients unhappy.

What happened? What did you miss?

I’ll tell you what. You missed the PAINFUL REFACTORING of DEATH.

A little software theory

When a project starts, nobody ever really knows what it will be. It is part of our job, as developers, to learn as we go along, remake, rearrange, learn and improve.

It is therefore logical to see that…