Lexicon

Safe Refactoring

Kind: capability

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:safe-refactoring

Canonical: Lexicon

Changing a system's internal structure with confidence that its observable behavior is preserved.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Safe Defaults and before Safe Substitution.

Category

  • Core Vocabulary

Enabled by

  • Invariant
  • Predictability

Linked from

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification