Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Finding "Bad Smells" in Code
3. Introduction to Refactoring
4. Principles and Rules
5. Test-First Development
6. Refactoring Tools
7. Structuring Behavior
8. Changing Class Responsibilities
9. Dealing with Data Rationalization
10. Reducing to Essential Conditional Executions
11. Simplifying Method Calls
12. Simplifying Generalization Relationships
13. Legacy Code
14. Regression Tests
15. Refactoring with Patterns

About the Author

Francesco Trucchia worked some years as web engineer on small, medium and large projects for international companies. Now he is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Ideato Srl, an Italian company in the business of web software development and agile methods. He likes to develop with extreme programming (XP) methods (test-driven design, pair programming, KISS, etc.) and he has introduced these practices in Ideato with a lot of positive feedback about the software life cycle process. Francesco specializes in web engineering, web development, ITC consultant, ITC problem solving, symfony development, PHP development, project management, XP methods, and agile processes.