An introduction to Software Refactoring
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Goal: To introduce and explain the technique of software refactoring and to explain its importance.
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What is refactoring?
• A software transformation that
– preserves the external software behaviour
– improves the internal software structure
• Some definitions
– [Fowler1999] a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behaviour
– [Roberts1998] A behaviour-preserving source-to-source program transformation
– [Beck1999] A change to the system that leaves its behaviour unchanged, but enhances some non-functional quality - simplicity, flexibility, understandability, …
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