Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Don Roberts, John Brant, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, William Opdyke

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Don Roberts, John Brant, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, William Opdyke ebook
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Page: 468
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0201485672, 9780201485677

Kabz writes “Refactoring (as I'll refer to the book from here on in) is a heavy and beautifully produced 418 page hardback book. We recently launched a challenge that invites Safari Books Online subscribers to write a book or video review and in exchange for their review, we'll enter. Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improve its internal structure. Usage of the term increased after it was featured in Refactoring. I got curious and downloaded its Eclipse plugin, I then picked the first bad smell code which Martin Fowler explains in his book: “Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code”. It is setup as a catalog of refactoring techniques. €Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code” is focused on OO programming (lots of Java examples) and Agile practices. Improving the Design of Existing Code (Refactoring). You may or may not have heard the term Refactoring before, but it is a term that sometimes seems to be used loosely in software development, when someone wants to do something to the code. Last week, I had the opportunity to do a presentation on refactoring, using Martin Fowler's book Refactoring as the basis, for the Bartlesville Dot Net Users Group (BDNUG). Improving the Design of Existing Code.