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” is focused on OO programming (lots of Java examples) and Agile practices. Pages : 431 ISBN : 0-201-48567-2 Price: $44.95 US Year : 2000 Recently, Refactoring is becoming a hot topic in programming, especially in object oriented programming language. Over the past few months, I've been working with an Agile Team in two-week sprints improving an existing and quite complicated planning environment that my company has been developing over the past few years. One of the great books I read about refactoring was, “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”, this book is unbelievable, I recommend everyone to read it. It is setup as a catalog of refactoring techniques. 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”. After refactoring some code, make sure your test cases still pass and write new test cases where necessary. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler. 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. This book should be treated as a classic in software craftmanship, and its contents are still relevant today as they were in 1999. Being part of this Don't use design patterns for the sake of design patterns: Good developers love writing crafty, intelligent code.