Architecture Digest

Jul 14, 2025 · Fundamentals

How to Eliminate Excessive if…else: 8 Proven Refactoring Techniques

This article examines the problems caused by overusing if…else statements—such as reduced readability, maintainability, and extensibility—and presents eight practical solutions including table‑driven design, chain‑of‑responsibility, annotation‑driven, event‑driven, state machines, Optional, Assert, and polymorphism, plus additional tactics like method extraction and guard clauses.