Refactorings in Agile Development

In Agile Software Development Refactoring starts with the first lines of code you write. Jeremy Miller discusses in this excellent article published in the MSDN magazine why this makes sense and can help you deliver products that meet your customer expectations in time.

As most practices in software development Refactoring is not an art but a science.

I recommend Refactoring to patterns by Joshua Kerievsky as a book resource.

The web page www.refactoring.com maintained by well known Martin Fowler contains a brief catalog I regularly use to lookup patterns when doing refactoring work.

Interesting picks: Enterprise Integration Patterns

Listening to the SoftwareArchitekTOUR podcast I always need to lookup the mentioned patterns because understanding pattern of spoken words is not one of the easiest things (understanding patterns in general is not something I do with my brain stem). Googling for the pattern names I found the Enterprise Integration Patterns site mantained by Gregor Hohpe.

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