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

Usage of the term increased after it was featured in Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.[1] Code smell is also a term used by agile programmers.[2]. (Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Fowler et al, 1999). 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. In my career, a very little portion of the projects I was involved with were based on new code. In the book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, we "refactor" code to make it better. When I first read Refactoring, I believed that tests were a necessary prerequisite before making structural changes to the code. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler with Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts. This page reviews the book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler. Facing an existing project, you sometimes get confronted with “code that smells”. The concept of 'Code smells' was popularized by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler in the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code' (ISBN 978-0201485677). €Certain structures in code that suggest (sometimes they scream for) the possibility of refactoring.” Martin Fowler. Most of them were based on 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. And you can be right saying that :) I've just read Refactoring: Improving. In the Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series. 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. Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code. 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. Http://www.storytellersoftware.com Mark Mahoney. Image by seizethedave via Flickr You may say I've been reading a lot recently.