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Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition - Second Edition
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Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition - Second Edition

by Viktor Farcic, Alex Garcia
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
324 pages
8h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Code refactoring

Code refactoring is the process of changing the structure of an existing code without changing its external behavior. The purpose of refactoring is to improve an existing code. This improvement can be made for many different reasons. We might want to make the code more readable, less complex, easier to maintain, cheaper to extend, and so on. No matter what the reason for refactoring is, the ultimate goal is always to make it better in one way or another. The effect of this goal is a reduction in technical debt; a reduction in pending work that needs to be done due to suboptimal design, architecture, or coding.

Typically, we approach refactoring by applying a set of small changes without modifying intended behavior. Reducing ...

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