Refactoring to Patterns

Preface

What Is This Book About?

This book is about the marriage of refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code—with patterns, the classic solutions to recurring design problems. Refactoring to Patterns suggests that using patterns to improve an existing design is better than using patterns early in a new design. This is true whether code is years old or minutes old. We improve designs with patterns by applying sequences of low-level design transformations, known as refactorings.

What Are the Goals of This Book?

This book was written to help you:

•  Understand how to combine refactoring and patterns

•  Improve the design of existing code with pattern-directed refactorings

•  Identify areas of code in need of pattern-directed ...