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Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks. He describes himself as an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. Fowler concentrates on designing enterprise software: exploring what makes a good design and what practices are needed to create one.



Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Refactoring, a First Example
  • 2. Principles in Refactoring
  • 3. Bad Smells in Code
  • 4. Building Tests
  • 5. Toward a Catalog of Refactorings
  • 6. Composing Methods
  • 7. Moving Features between Objects
  • 8. Organizing Data
  • 9. Simplifying Conditional Expressions
  • 10. Making Method Calls Simpler
  • 11. Dealing with Generalization
  • 12. Big Refactorings
  • 13. Refactoring, Reuse, and Reality
  • 14. Refactoring Tools
  • 15. Putting It All Together

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      Publisher Addison Wesley
      Published 11 January 2019
      ISBN-13 9780134757599
      978-0134757599
      ISBN-10 0134757599
      Also in:
      Computing Object-oriented programming (OOP) Systems analysis and design

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks. He describes himself as an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. Fowler concentrates on designing enterprise software: exploring what makes a good design and what practices are needed to create one.



      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • 1. Refactoring, a First Example
      • 2. Principles in Refactoring
      • 3. Bad Smells in Code
      • 4. Building Tests
      • 5. Toward a Catalog of Refactorings
      • 6. Composing Methods
      • 7. Moving Features between Objects
      • 8. Organizing Data
      • 9. Simplifying Conditional Expressions
      • 10. Making Method Calls Simpler
      • 11. Dealing with Generalization
      • 12. Big Refactorings
      • 13. Refactoring, Reuse, and Reality
      • 14. Refactoring Tools
      • 15. Putting It All Together

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