Jump to ratings and reviews

Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

As the application of object technology—particularly the Java programming language—has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software system professionals are discovering just how difficult it is to work with these inherited, non-optimal applications. For several years, expert-level object programmers have employed a growing collection of techniques to improve the structural integrity and performance of such existing software programs. Referred to as refactoring, these practices have remained in the domain of experts because no attempt has been made to transcribe the lore into a form that all developers could use... until now. In Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Software, renowned object technology mentor Martin Fowler breaks new ground, demystifying these master practices and demonstrating how software practitioners can realize the significant benefits of this new process.

431 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Loading...
Loading...

About the author

Martin Fowler

46 books1,127 followers
Martin Fowler (b. 1963) is a software engineer, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, and an outspoken advocate for best practices in enterprise software design, particularly in regard to agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.

Ratings & Reviews

What do you think?

Friends & Following

Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!

Community Reviews

5 stars
4,121 (46%)
4 stars
3,199 (36%)
3 stars
1,223 (13%)
2 stars
250 (2%)
1 star
90 (1%)
Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 review
4 reviews
December 15, 2015
옆에 두고두고 읽으면서 적용해 나가야 할 책이자.
클린 코드를 위한 가이드의 기초라고 생각 할 수 있다.
Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 review