Refactoring for Software Design Smells

Appendix C

Notations for Figures

We have used UML-like class diagrams throughout the book. In this appendix, we succinctly describe the notations we have used in this book for such class diagrams with the help of a figure (refer Figure C.1).

With respect to the Figure C.1, following notations are used in this book:

• A rectangle represents an entity such as an interface, an abstract class, a concrete class, or an enumeration. Some of the rectangles may have three partitions:

• The first partition shows the name of the type. If the type is an interface or abstract class, then keywords “≪interface≫” or “≪abstract-class≫” appear before the name of the ...