Hi folks I would like to share this interesting article. I had a few conversations with members of the community about refactors and internal enhancements that have no apparent impact in user experience and are sometimes put into question. I think Martin does a very good job explaining why refactoring, reducing developer frustration and internal improvement is a crucial productivity multiplier which includes lower cost to ship features, less bugs and time spent debugging.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html The points expressed in the article coincide with my experience of more than 15 years developing industrial software and working in very diverse codebases. I think some of you share these views and have made important contributions in these directions, including CI, build system, testing, tooling, automation, delivery and binary releases, etc. So I take the opportunity to recognize these efforts and give a big thank you and admiration. I'm interested to read about your opinions. Happy weekend and TGIF. Pedro.
