5 Rewarding refactoring
This chapter covers
- Getting comfortable with refactoring
- Incremental refactoring on large changes
- Using tests to make code changes faster
- Dependency injection
In chapter 3, I discussed how resistance to change caused the downfall of the French royal family and software developers. Refactoring is the art of changing the structure of the code. According to Martin Fowler,1 Leo Brodie coined the term in his book Thinking Forth back in 1984. That makes the term as old as Back to the Future and Karate Kid, my favorite movies when I was a kid.
Writing great code is usually only half of being an efficient developer. The other half is being agile in transforming code. In an ideal world, we should be writing and changing code ...
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