Breathe new life into old code! Learn how to refactor software to ensure that it is efficient, fresh and adaptable.
Refactoring is an aspect of eXtreme programming that enables software developers, designers and architects to breathe new life into old code. Authors Stefan Roock and Martin Lippert help you to keep your software projects alive and show you how to successfully adapt and improve complex restructurings.
Some Integrated Development Environments, such as Eclipse or IntelliJ, provide support for refactorings. However, this support does not tackle some of the planning or controlling, nor the long-term consequences, of large refactorings. This invaluable resource fills the gap and shows you how to improve the design of existing software code.
Whilst there have been a number of books on eXtreme Programming, few have looked in detail at individual practices. Stefan Roock and Martin Lippert take the idea a step further and extend the scope to applications that use libraries, frameworks and database structures.
Refactoring in Large Software Projects looks at methods of design improvements as an important and independent activity during development of software.
If you're looking for a practical guide to performing complex restructurings, this is certainly the book for you.
