How often should you refactor?

Question

I had a discussion a few weeks back with some co-workers on refactoring, and I seem to be in a minority that believes \"Refactor early, refactor often\" is a good approach t

Answer 1

Continuously, within reason. You should always be looking for ways to improve your software, but you have to be careful to avoid situations where you’re refactoring for the sake of refactoring (Refactorbation).

If you can make a case that a refactoring will make a piece of code faster, easier to read, easier to maintain or easier or provide some other value to the business I say go for it!