Definition of "refactoring" [refactoring]

• Present participle of refactor. (verb)
• An act or process in which code is refactored. (noun)

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• "I think some social refactoring is long overdue; I think that programs like the one Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher led at Carnegie-Mellon, and described in their book Unlocking the Clubhouse, matter a lot more than copyright reform or the fight against software patents."
• "This refactoring is motivated by students’ desire to quickly change the game’s parameters so that they each have a slightly different version of the game (guess a number between 1 and 10,000,000 isn’t uncommon!)."
• "Over the years I've become very good at refactoring; I've actually been called a refactoring machine."