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Discussion on: Do you schedule time and tasks for refactors?

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Ehsan Zumrut

In my own projects, I follow this mentality of refactoring before adding any new features, I own these projects and I define my values, and by my nature as a developer, I give a higher priority for technical values than for business values.

But when working on someone else's projects values vary, they may think that having new features are more valuable than having a high-quality software, some of them would understand the long-term price they would pay by rushing new features and they will listen to developer's advice, but many will not.

Sometimes you will HAVE to write terrible code, you will HAVE to skip tests, then weeks or months later you will finally find a chance to fix your shit, it will become necessary to schedule your refactoring and add it to your backlog.