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

(Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Fowler et al, 1999). The basic approach involved improving your code's running time by limiting the amount of memory space the program uses. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Fowler et al, Addison-Wesley, 1999. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. But what does "updating" means to any human being? When I first read Refactoring, I believed that tests were a necessary prerequisite before making structural changes to the code. More specially to a little person like me. This book is an extensive compilation of refactorings that range from providing meaningful names for variable to collapsing class hierarchies. In the Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series. 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 improve its internal structure. 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 ;)!!!