Sure, the TDD cycle is red-green-refactor but what exactly are we refactoring? We just wrote the code, it’s green, and it seems reasonable to us. Let’s move onto the next test. We’re have a deadline, remember? Whether we’re working with code we just wrote or opening up a project for …
Refactoring can pry panic’s fingers away from your poor, overburdened adrenal glands and restore your sanity. Not that it went missing, of course. Never that!
Though refactoring tools have been available for more than a decade, research has shown that programmers under-utilize such tools. However, little is known about why programmers do not take advantage of these tools.
Most developers know enough about refactoring to write code that’s pretty good. They create short methods, and classes with one responsibility. They’re also familiar with a good handful of refactorings, and the code smells that motivate them.
Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to learn refactoring? Martin Fowler’s Refactoring book was a great introductory book on how to clean up legacy code bases, but over the years, what I have found missing in that book is one a set of guidelines that links …
This presentation provides a glimpse on the advances that have been booked by the software engineering research community for analyzing code smells and discuss some empirical results from studies on refactoring strategies. Our aim is to give developers and architects useful insights for prioritizing refactoring tasks and suggest different ways …
