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title: "Refactoring"
date: "2021-02-18T04:06:09+00:00"
url: "https://staging.checkmarx.com/glossary/refactoring/"
description: "code refactoring or application Re-architecting explained"
---

# Refactoring

Re-architecting an application or modifying its code to improve it. An application, for example, might be refactored by decomposing it into microservices.