Refactoring Messy Code: My Approach to Coupling and Cohesion
TL;DR: High cohesion means classes focus on one job. Low coupling means classes don’t depend too much on each other. When I refactor messy code, these two principles guide every decision I make. Why I Focus on Cohesion and Coupling When Refactoring After 10+ years of building enterprise applications, I’ve inherited my fair share of messy codebases. The pattern is always the same: tangled classes doing too much, components that break when you touch something seemingly unrelated, and tests that require half the application to run. ...