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
Format: pdf
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Page: 468
ISBN: 0201485672, 9780201485677
When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature. Ever inherit a big mountain of nasty code and have to add new features to it? Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, et. Kabz writes “Refactoring (as I'll refer to the book from here on in) is a heavy and beautifully produced 418 page hardback book. Refactoring improving the design of existing code[ebook]. Refactoring is thus a process of software source code transformation. It is a great book from Martin Fowler & Co. In that time, many worthwhile books on the matter of refactoring have been brought to my attention. Http://lens.cos.ufrj.br/sugarloafplop/2002/download/refactoring-tutorial.pdf. Refactoring has been described as "the art of safely improving the design of existing code" (Martin Fowler, see refs). The concept of 'Code smells' was popularized by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler in the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code' (ISBN 978-0201485677). (ed.) (2001): Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium. Http://sourcemaking.com/refactoring. Refactoring does not involve adding new features. Site: SourceMaking's Refactorings Catalog. 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. By re-running the test cases, the developer can be confident that code refactoring is not damaging any existing functionality. Fowler, Martin, Brant, John, Opdyke, William and Roberts, Don (1999): Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Refactoring – Improving the design of existing code. What I found most useful are all the examples that are given for almost every refactoring that is described.