Beginning IntelliJ IDEA: Integrated Development Environment for Java Programming

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7. Refactoring

Ted Hagos¹  

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Makati, Philippines

 

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Overview of refactoring

• Common (and important) refactoring actions

• How IntelliJ does refactoring

“Technical debt,” “DRY principle,” “clean code” — ever heard these terms mentioned during code reviews? Dev conferences, maybe? I bet you have. These may be buzzwords now, but they’re not empty. These terms were coined (and became popular) for good reasons.

The most exciting parts of building a new app (for me, at least) were the initial coding phase. That was always a blast, but as the project enters the maintenance phase — where your initial technical decisions come to ...