7 Questions about The Touchlab Refactory (incremental refactoring with Kotlin Multiplatform)

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Question 1. What is The Touchlab Refactory? 

Kevin: Touchlab Refactory is an incremental refactoring service that we provide for our clients. Over the years at Touchlab we have done this for a number of clients where we come in and we refactor architecture we reduced tech debt. We improve testing all those kinds of things and now we’re specifically focused on using Kotlin Multiplatform to also consolidate your code bases to reduce duplicate code reduce duplicate logic and architecture which will help prepare your code base for the future, reduce errors all kinds of stuff so you can focus on delivering products and new features well while we. clean up the code base and make things run smoother.

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Question 2. Why do I need it? 

Kevin: Pretty much every team on the planet would love to go back to refactor code, fix their architecture, improve test coverage but you have ongoing priorities and deadlines, which prevent you from doing so. We can come in and do that simultaneously while you’re delivering your ongoing work.

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Question 3. How does it work?

Kevin: We come in for a fixed engagement, generally 8 to 12 weeks with our independent code logistics team. We’ll do an architectural review of your codebase to identify features best consolidated with Kotlin Multiplatform and begin that refactoring process. At the end we’ll leave you with a detailed roadmap for your Kotlin Multiplatform future.

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Question 4. How much of our time will it take?

Kevin: There’s a minimal impact on your time because we’re coming in to refactor your existing code. We don’t need to sit down with users, we don’t need to iterate with the business, we don’t need to do feature development. We are taking existing code and making it better, so while you’re working on new features our workflow happens concurrently but independently and doesn’t impact your feature delivery schedule.

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Question 5. Do we risk missing a deadline?

Kevin: So do you risk missing a deadline??? Easy answer is NO. Kotlin Multiplatform by its nature is optional and incremental, so we can take things feature by feature and you don’t have to do the whole thing at once. This code exists already in your code base so you can take this refactored code and put it into and deploy it on your platforms when you’re ready. You don’t have to do it right away there’s no external deadline for this to happen.

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Question 6. What about the cost?

Kevin: It’s fixed cost and time engagement and with the predefined scope of work. Our approach is to take one feature at a time of your product and refactor it and improve it and our goal is to show that this is a sound strategy this is something that’ll work it’s low risk for you and at the end you’re going to have something measurable that you can use.

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Question 7. So what’s the best reason for partnering with Touchlab?

Kevin: Well in the short term it’s really important to improve code quality and consolidate your codes so you can move faster so you can iterate faster deliver better product deliver safer products that has less issues less problems for both your internal teams and your users but it’s also about the future the future is not just iOS and Android the future is maybe the web the future is maybe voice the futures maybe other platforms. The future is hard to see and we are preparing for the future, a post-platform future by reducing risk and having an adaptable codebase and adaptable team and skills and we think that that’s really important and we think Kotlin Multiplatform is going to deliver that.

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