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Ask HN: How have you dealt with a team that is afraid of refactoring?
When in a position where your company culture embraces code quality, TDD, and other best practices, but some team members seem afraid to refactor in case of breakages, how have you approached shifting the team towards continuous improvement?
As I am fairly new on the team, my approach has been to add more and better unit tests, and slowly improve the code via small refactors, and let the results show themselves. This seems like a very long game to play, however, and I'm not sure if it will succeed.