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

Pages : 431 ISBN : 0-201-48567-2 Price: $44.95 US Year : 2000 Recently, Refactoring is becoming a hot topic in programming, especially in object oriented programming language. (Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Fowler et al, 1999). Last week, I had the opportunity to do a presentation on refactoring, using Martin Fowler's book Refactoring as the basis, for the Bartlesville Dot Net Users Group (BDNUG). Martin Fowler's discussion book and catalogue of common refactorings is a hugely interesting read. I've long been told that this book is one of the must-reads for developers. Ever inherit a big mountain of nasty code and have to add new features to it? Way back in 1999 Martin Fowler published Refactoring — Improving the Design of Existing Code. Improving the Design of Existing Code (Refactoring). When I first read Refactoring, I believed that tests were a necessary prerequisite before making structural changes to the code. After picking it up a few months ago, it took me a while to finish reading it. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, et. 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. In that time, many worthwhile books on the matter of refactoring have been brought to my attention.