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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Martin Fowler
Kent Beck
John Brant
William Opdyke
Don Roberts
Publisher: Addison Wesley
First Edition June 11, 1999
ISBN: 0-201-485672, 464 pages
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Front Matter As the application of object technology--particularly the Java
Table of Contents programming language--has monplace, a new problem
About the Author has emerged to confront the software munity.
Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created
by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are
inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software
system professionals are discovering just how difficult it is to work
with these inherited, "non-optimal" applications. For several years,
expert-level object programmers have employed a growing collection
of techniques to improve the structural integrity and performance of
such existing software programs. Referred to as "refactoring," these
practices have remained in the domain of experts because no attempt
has been made to transcribe the lore into a form that all developers
could use. . .until now. In Refactoring: Improving the Design of
Existing Software, renowned object technology mentor Martin Fowler
breaks new ground, demystifying these master practices and
demonstrating how software practitioners can realize the significant
benefits of this new process.
With proper training a skilled system designer can take a bad design
and rework it into well-designed, robust code. In this book, Martin
Fowler shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be
found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one.
Each refactoring step is simple--seem