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defactoring

defactoring is the present participle and gerund of defactor.

Meaning of defactor

Verb

defactor (third-person singular simple present defactors, present participle defactoring, simple past and past participle defactored)

  1. (rare) To modify source code to remove design patterns and structure, for example to make it harder to reverse-engineer.
    • One of my favorite transformations is to use threads to confuse a hacker who is trying to steal code. […] Many of the transformations I've discussed go against the programmer's natural sense of what's good and right […] You also don't have to defactor (see the section "Removing Programming Idioms")...2012, Godfrey Nolan, Decompiling Android, page 137

Questions about defactoring

What is defactoring the present participle and gerund of?
Defactoring is the present participle and gerund of defactor.

Words near defactoring in the dictionary

  1. defacings
  2. defactinib
  3. defacto
  4. defactor
  5. defactored
  6. defactoring
  7. defactors
  8. defactos
  9. defactualization
  10. defactualize
  11. defactualized

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