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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans
August 2003
Beginner to intermediate
560 pages
12h 58m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Thirteen. Refactoring Toward Deeper Insight

Refactoring toward deeper insight is a multifaceted process. It will be helpful to stop for a moment to pull together the major points. There are three things you have to focus on.

1. Live in the domain.

2. Keep looking at things a different way.

3. Maintain an unbroken dialog with domain experts.

Seeking insight into the domain creates a broader context for the process of refactoring.

The classic refactoring scenario involves a developer or two sitting at the keyboard, recognizing that some code can be improved, and then changing it on the fly (with unit tests to verify their results, of course). This practice should happen all the time, but it isn’t the whole story.

The previous five chapters present ...

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