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refactoring - definition and meaning
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verb Present participle of refactor .
noun An act or process in which code is refactored .
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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.
"Why Aren't More Women in Science?" Peggy 2007
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.
Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007
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!).
William E. J. Doane PhD › Goodbye, Hello World? 2010
Over the years I've become very good at refactoring ; I've actually been called a refactoring machine.
Scala over Ruby - My Debate Ends Jack Cough 2009
Over the years I've become very good at refactoring ; I've actually been called a refactoring machine.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
Improved rename refactoring , type inference, and navigation
Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community 2009
Smart Indent, Outdent, and Pair matching, additional to syntactic and semantic highlighting, code folding, instant rename refactoring , mark occurrences
Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009
Smart Indent, Outdent, and Pair matching, additional to syntactic and semantic highlighting, code folding, instant rename refactoring , mark occurrences
Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009
Rename refactoring now provides name completion, and some of the other refactorings were thoroughly refactored themselves, to make them perform faster.
ASP.NET Weblogs 2009
Finalizing features that not fully implemented such as Move and Rename refactoring
MSDN Blogs 2009
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