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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
13h 10m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 5Introducing the Catalog

The rest of this book is a catalog of refactorings. This catalog started from my personal notes that I made to remind myself how to do refactorings in a safe and efficient way. Since then, I’ve refined the catalog, and there’s more of it that comes from deliberate exploration of some refactoring moves. It’s still something I use when I do a refactoring I haven’t done in a while.

Format of the Refactorings

As I describe the refactorings in the catalog, I use a standard format. Each refactoring has five parts, as follows:

  • I begin with a name. The name is important to building a vocabulary of refactorings. This is the name I use elsewhere in the book. Refactorings often go by different names now, so I also list ...

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