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

Kabz writes “Refactoring (as I'll refer to the book from here on in) is a heavy and beautifully produced 418 page hardback book. Beck, “Refactoring: improving the design of existing code”, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999, pp.238 – 240. Over the last few years, I've succumbed to an unfortunate addiction - that of writing books. Usage of the term increased after it was featured in Refactoring. The first place prize will be a copy of Refactoring: Improving The Design Of Existing Code, an Ubuntu Mug, an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS install disc, and a Mun pen. When I first read Refactoring, I believed that tests were a necessary prerequisite before making structural changes to the code. Refactoring Ruby Edition · Analysis Patterns · Planning Extreme Programming. Image by seizethedave via Flickr You may say I've been reading a lot recently. 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. And you can be right saying that I've just read Refactoring: Improving. But good design is critical to the long-term maintainability of code, and generally speaking, developers are taught to deliver large, up-front designs that consider the 'big picture', not just the features being added. (Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Fowler et al, 1999). Preface from the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code'. Improving the Design of Existing Code. However, in this new paradigm it isn't that design is ignored, but rather, the design This includes major refactoring tasks [11, 10], and helps to support continually improving the design. Once upon a time, a consultant made a visit to a development project.