Exploring Extreme Programming
Jon Bentley wasn’t using the term “refactoring” in his books like Writing Efficient Programs, but many of his optimization guidelines can be looked at that way. This paper describes several of those rules, and points out a few subtleties concerning Continue reading Refactorings from “Writing Efficient Programs”
This exercise offers you a chance to practice test-first through a series of challenges. Each challenge provides a set of tests. Your job is to write code that supports the tests. Continue reading Test-First Challenge: Spreadsheet
Design patterns are interesting in themselves, but it’s useful to be able to move between patterns while refactoring a system. We’ll look at how you can move between command, interpreter, and visitor. Continue reading Command, Interpreter, Visitor
An earlier refactoring example is taken further, introducing true templates and improving performance. Introduction This paper extends an earlier example of refactoring. (See “Refactoring: An Example” in Extreme Programming Explored) In that paper we refactored a Java program that was Continue reading Refactoring: An Example, Extended
Evolve from nothing, to an item, a collection, and a composite, or back again. Continue reading From 0 to Composite (and Back Again)
A presentation on refactoring. Continue reading Refactoring Presentation (PPT)
Dec. 5-10, 1999, I attended the first offering of “XP Immersion Training”, in Deerfield, IL, sponsored by Object Mentor. This was an excellent, intensive course. Mechanics Kent Beck did the bulk of the training, with one day by Martin Fowler. Continue reading XP Immersion Course Review