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Refactoring to Patterns
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Refactoring to Patterns

by Joshua Kerievsky
August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 46m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Contents

Foreword by Ralph Johnson

Foreword by Martin Fowler

Preface

What Is This Book About?

What Are the Goals of This Book?

Who Should Read This Book?

What Background Do You Need?

How to Use This Book

The History of This Book

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Why I Wrote This Book

Over-Engineering

The Patterns Panacea

Under-Engineering

Test-Driven Development and Continuous Refactoring

Refactoring and Patterns

Evolutionary Design

Chapter 2: Refactoring

What Is Refactoring?

What Motivates Us to Refactor?

Many Eyes

Human-Readable Code

Keeping It Clean

Small Steps

Design Debt

Evolving a New Architecture

Composite and Test-Driven Refactorings

The Benefits of Composite Refactorings

Refactoring Tools

Chapter 3: Patterns ...

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