Best Haiku I’ve Seen Describing Refactoring
Via James Shore’s blog:
before pulling weeds
perhaps I should remember
what the plants look like
How very true. One common action I like to take when undertaking a refactoring is to comment out sections of the code I am about to refactor and run the unit test… if nothing breaks, proceed no further until you have better tests in place! 
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