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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

In the Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series. 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. By far the most important programming book I ever read was Martin Fowler's "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code". Ξ April 28th, 2011 | → Comments Off | ∇ Books |. Michael Wooten replied on Mon, 2011/10/31 - 12:29pm. As such, it is not a surprise that Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code feels a little dated. Refactoring enables an approach to design I call reflective design. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler, Kent Beck et al.) – The first couple of chapters are a must read for every developer. Image by seizethedave via Flickr You may say I've been reading a lot recently. Refactoring Ruby Edition · Analysis Patterns · Planning Extreme Programming. April 28, 2011 § Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler. In addition to creating a design and coding it, you can now analyze the design of existing code and improve it. Over the last few years, I've succumbed to an unfortunate addiction - that of writing books. 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. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler with Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts. However, not as much as I had expected.