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

This book is an extensive compilation of refactorings that range from providing meaningful names for variable to collapsing class hierarchies. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” — Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler . 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). Refactoring does not involve adding new features. Image by seizethedave via Flickr You may say I've been reading a lot recently. €�Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. La semana pasada, para preparar decentemente la charla que impartí en Luce I.T., leí Refactoring: improving the design of existing code de Martin Fowler y Kent Beck. Refactoring is thus a process of software source code transformation. Refactoring has been described as "the art of safely improving the design of existing code" (Martin Fowler, see refs). I've long been told that this book is one of the must-reads for developers. Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code. And you can be right saying that I've just read Refactoring: Improving. €�Certain structures in code that suggest (sometimes they scream for) the possibility of refactoring.” Martin Fowler. After picking it up a few months ago, it took me a while to finish reading it.