Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Don Roberts, John Brant, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, William Opdyke
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. It is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code, yet improves its internal structure. Refactoring Ruby Edition · Analysis Patterns · Planning Extreme Programming. Refactoring – Improving the design of existing code. Description: Refactoring is about improving the design of existing code. Over the last few years, I've succumbed to an unfortunate addiction - that of writing books. 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”. Now you can dramatically improve the design, performance, and manageability of object-oriented code without altering its interfaces or behavior. This book is an extensive compilation of refactorings that range from providing meaningful names for variable to collapsing class hierarchies. By re-running the test cases, the developer can be confident that code refactoring is not damaging any existing functionality. 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.