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

€Certain structures in code that suggest (sometimes they scream for) the possibility of refactoring.” Martin Fowler. Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code. In 2003, I published a Perl 5 “translation” of the first chapter of the book “Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code”, Addison Wesley, by Martin Fowler et al., on my website. The term “code smell” is attributed to Kent Beck in Martin Fowler's book Refactoring, Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-48567-2). Image by seizethedave via Flickr You may say I've been reading a lot recently. Design is hard; so improving design of existing code must be hard, as well, right? Refactoring is about improving the design of existing code. It is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code, yet improves its internal structure. I think people see refactoring as a difficult process. Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code. Read More Posted in: Email This BlogThis! Now you can dramatically improve the design, performance, and manageability of object-oriented code without altering its interfaces or behavior. And you can be right saying that :) I've just read Refactoring: Improving.