# software refactoring

> process of restructuring existing computer code without changing its external behavior

**Wikidata**: [Q116877](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116877)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/software-refactoring


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Quora
3. National Library of Israel
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)