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In the Agile Testing mailing list, Bruce Rennie wrote: "When we return to code to change it there is a certain price we pay, which Robert Grady called 'knowledge recovery'. So, any new feature or bug fix we make has two components: the time it takes to recover knowledge about the code simply to get ourselves into a position to make changes, plus the time it takes to make the change itself. Anything we can do to reduce knowledge recovery time is a clear win. It seems to me that refactoring can be of great value here."