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People have been measuring the cost of refactoring versus rewrite from scratch, but the results are, as so often in the industry of software development mostly

People have been measuring the cost of refactoring versus rewrite from scratch, but the results are, as so often in the industry of software development mostly ignored. Anyway, there (obviously) is a tilting point.

xaedes 8y ago
But what are the results?
- toolslive 8y ago
  if more than 25% of a component is to be revised, it's more efficient and effective to rewrite it from scratch. (It's fact 19 in 55 Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering) which references several sources of it.