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

In my career, a very little portion of the projects I was involved with were based on new code. When I first read Refactoring, I believed that tests were a necessary prerequisite before making structural changes to the code. Pages : 431 ISBN : 0-201-48567-2 Price: $44.95 US Year : 2000 Recently, Refactoring is becoming a hot topic in programming, especially in object oriented programming language. (Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Fowler et al, 1999). Refactoring Ruby Edition · Analysis Patterns · Planning Extreme Programming. Facing an existing project, you sometimes get confronted with “code that smells”. In that time, many worthwhile books on the matter of refactoring have been brought to my attention. Once upon a time, a consultant made a visit to a development project. Over the last few years, I've succumbed to an unfortunate addiction - that of writing books. Preface from the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code'. Most of them were based on existing code.