Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Don Roberts, John Brant, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, William Opdyke
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

But what does "updating" means to any human being? Software developers are professionals. Being part of this Don't use design patterns for the sake of design patterns: Good developers love writing crafty, intelligent code. More specially to a little person like me. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler with Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts. At last, I have decided to update myself ;)!!! In 2003, I published a Perl 5 “translation” of the first chapter of the book “Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code”, Addison Wesley, by Martin Fowler et al., on my website. Over the past few months, I've been working with an Agile Team in two-week sprints improving an existing and quite complicated planning environment that my company has been developing over the past few years. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Now you can dramatically improve the design, performance, and manageability of object-oriented code without altering its interfaces or behavior. In the Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series. Our job is to build effective software as rapidly as we can. After refactoring some code, make sure your test cases still pass and write new test cases where necessary. My experience is that refactoring is a big ait to building software quickly.