Episode 55: Refactoring Pt. 2

In the first episode on Refactoring we talked about the basic ideas
behind refactoring and some base principles why refactoring is a
key part of software engineering. Now we move on to more
complicated refactorings and discuss three major situations, their
problems and possible solutions: advanced refactorings in large
projects that can hardly be finished in a few minutes or hours and
refactoring in larger teams. Also covered are the refactoring of
published APIs and how merciless refactoring could be aligned with
backward compatibility of published APIs, and refactorings that
affect more than just code like for example database schemas.