Prefactoring

{{Short description|Usage of experiential insight in software development}}

Prefactoring is the application of experience to the creation of new software systems. Its relationship to its namesake refactoring is that lessons learned from refactoring are part of that experience.[https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/prefactoring/0596008740/0596008740_prefactoring-CHP-1-SECT-1.html What Is Prefactoring? ]

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.

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"