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Systematic refactoring: safe transformations, strangler patterns, characterization tests, and large-scale change management. Use when improving code structure without changing behavior.

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# Refactoring Pro

## Overview

Refactoring — **improving structure without changing behavior** — is how codebases stay malleable.
The professional discipline is making it *safe and systematic*: small behavior-preserving steps,
tests as the safety net (characterization tests when none exist), and strategies for large-scale
change (strangler fig, branch by abstraction) that don't require freezing the world.

The through-line: never refactor and change behavior in the same step — and prove it with tests.

## When to use

- Cleaning up code that's hard to understand or change.
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