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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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Chapter 10. Accumulation

A good deal of code in software systems accumulates information. The refactorings in this section target the improvement of code that accumulates information within an object or across several objects.

A Collecting Parameter [Beck, SBPP] is an object that visits methods in order to accumulate information from them. The visited methods may reside within one object or many objects. Each visited method provides the Collecting Parameter with information. When all relevant methods have been visited, the accumulated information can be obtained from the Collecting Parameter.

Move Accumulation to Collecting Parameter (313) is often used in conjunction with the refactoring Compose Method (123). The combination of these refactorings ...

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