Prefactoring is the application of experience to the creation of new

software system A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to se ...

s. Its relationship to its namesake

refactoring In computer programming and software design, code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code—changing the '' factoring''—without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is intended to improve the design, structu ...

is that lessons learned from refactoring are part of that experience.What Is Prefactoring?
/ref> Experience is captured in guidelines that can be applied to a development process. The guidelines have come from a number of sources, including Jerry Weinberg, Norm Kerth, and

Scott Ambler Scott W. Ambler (born 1966) is a Canadian software engineer, consultant and author. He is an author of books about the Disciplined Agile Delivery toolkit, the Unified process, Agile software development, the Unified Modeling Language, and Capabili ...

. These guidelines include: * "When you're abstract, be abstract all the way" * " Splitters can be lumped more easily than lumpers can be split" * "Use the client’s language"

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