Large Refactorings looks at methods of establish design improvements as an important and independent activity during development of software, and will help to ensure that software continues to adapt, improve and remain easy to read and modify without altering its observable behaviour. It provides real-world experience from real refactored projects and shows how to refactor software to ensure that it is efficient, fresh and adaptable.

Breathe new life into old code! Learn how to refactor software to ensure that it is efficient, fresh and adaptable.

Refactoring is an aspect of eXtreme programming that enables software developers, designers and architects to breathe new life into old code. Authors Stefan Roock and Martin Lippert help you to keep your software projects alive and show you how to successfully adapt and improve complex restructurings.

Some Integrated Development Environments, such as Eclipse or IntelliJ, provide support for refactorings. However, this support does not tackle some of the planning or controlling, nor the long-term consequences, of large refactorings. This invaluable resource fills the gap and shows you how to improve the design of existing software code.

Whilst there have been a number of books on eXtreme Programming, few have looked in detail at individual practices. Stefan Roock and Martin Lippert take the idea a step further and extend the scope to applications that use libraries, frameworks and database structures.

Refactoring in Large Software Projects looks at methods of design improvements as an important and independent activity during development of software.

If you’re looking for a practical guide to performing complex restructurings, this is certainly the book for you.

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Refactoring – An Overview

3 Architecture Smells

4 Large Refactorings

5 Refactoring of Relational Databases

6 API Refactorings

7 Tool-Based Detection and Avoidance of Architecture Smells

8 Conclusion

About the Author

Stefan Roock works as a consultant and coach for it-agile GmbH (located in Germany). His areas of expertise include agile software development, refactoring techniques and agile project management and among his special interests are refactoring, incremental design and agile customer coaching. Stefan also is frequently a speaker at technical conferences and has published a number of papers and articles. He is co-author of the book "Extreme Programming in Action". You can contact him at stefan@stefanroock.de or http://www.stefanroock.de.

Martin Lippert works as a consultant and coach for it-agile GmbH (located in Germany) and is an expert on agile software development, refactoring techniques and Eclipse technology. His special interests include aspect-oriented programming, refactoring, incremental design and the Eclipse platform. Martin is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has published a number of papers and articles. He is co-author of the book "Extreme Programming in Action". You can contact him at lippert@acm.org or http://www.martinlippert.com