In this book, Martin Fowler shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one.

Refactoring is a controlled technique for improving the design of an existing code base. Its essence is applying a series of small behavior-preserving ...

a disciplined way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs. Although it is focused on the code, refactoring has a large impact on the ...

Book description · Understand the process and general principles of refactoring · Quickly apply useful refactorings to make a program easier to comprehend and ...

Refactoring. Improving the Design of Existing Code. Second Edition. Martin Fowler with contributions by. Kent Beck. Boston • Columbus • New York • San Francisco ...

Today refactoring requires considerable design know-how, but once tools become available, all programmers should be able to improve their code using refactoring.

In Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Software, renowned object technology mentor Martin Fowler breaks new ground, demystifying these master ...

Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior.

In this book, Martin Fowler shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one.