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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 8

Repaying Technical Debt in Practice

Abstract

This final chapter offers practical guidance and tips on how to approach refactoring in order to manage technical debt in real-world projects. The chapter focuses the discussion along three important dimensions for repaying technical debt: tools, processes, and people. It first presents an overview of different kinds of tools that can help a developer in detecting, analyzing, and addressing smells. Following that, the chapter outlines a few best practices that can be adopted in a real-world setting to ensure backing from the management for refactoring. It also presents a refactoring process model named “IMPACT” that covers the essential steps of a refactoring exercise. Finally, this chapter ...

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