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Refactoring for Software Design Smells
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Refactoring for Software Design Smells

by Girish Suryanarayana, Ganesh Samarthyam, Tushar Sharma
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
7h 29m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 2

Design Smells

Abstract

Design smells are certain structures in the design that indicate violation of fundamental design principles and negatively impact design quality. This chapter provides a brief overview of design smells and various factors that lead to the occurrence of smells. This chapter presents the core idea behind a principle-based classification scheme for design smells discussed in this book: “When we view every smell as a violation of one or more underlying design principle(s), we get a deeper understanding of that smell; but perhaps more importantly, it also naturally directs us toward a potential refactoring approach for that smell.” Building on this insight, this chapter introduces the PHAME (Principles of Hierarchy, Abstraction, ...

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ISBN: 9780128013977