Exploring Extreme Programming
Kent Beck’s TCR workflow experiment has generated some good discussion. Rachel Carmena has documented several TDD workflows. I’d like to add an approach that I’ve used for a while: “Call Your Shots”. Call Your Shots If you’re playing pool seriously, you don’t just Continue reading The “Call Your Shots” TDD Workflow
Martin Fowler writes, “Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet it improves its internal structure.” [Refactoring, 1999, p. xvi] But what does Continue reading Limits of Refactoring: What IS Behavior?
We’ll look at two refactorings suitable for conditional statements: Pull Up Common Head of Conditional and Pull Down Common Tail of Conditional. I originally learned these as performance optimizations but they also help simplify and clarify code. In Refactoring, Martin Continue reading Refactoring: Pull Common Code from Conditional
Kevin Rutherford and I wrote this article for Better Software magazine; it was the cover article in the July/August 20122 issue. It demonstrates refactoring in Ruby, using a basic “todo” list application. “When Software Smells Bad” (PDF), by Bill Wake Continue reading When Software Smells Bad
Interview with Bill Wake and Kevin Rutherford, the authors of Refactoring in Ruby. Continue reading Refactoring in Ruby – InformIT Interview
Clean Code, Bob Martin, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Bob Martin tackles the challenges of making code sparkling clean. He provides numerous guidelines, and demonstrates their utility in action. I particularly appreciated some of the longer examples where he really works them over. Continue reading Review – Clean Code
“Refactoring improves through practice.” Continue reading Refactoring Workbook
Refactoring cheat sheet. Continue reading Smell to Refactoring Cheat Sheet – Industrial Logic
Refactoring Workbook, William Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2003. [Consider this a summary rather than a review of my own book.] My goals were to create a workbook that helps people practice recognizing smells (problems) and learn to apply important refactoring techniques. There’s Continue reading Review – Refactoring Workbook
Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Design patterns and refactoring have been related for a long time. (Consider that Ralph Johnson, one of the co-authors of Design Patterns, was a sponsor of the work that created the original refactoring Continue reading Review – Refactoring to Patterns