InfoQ Homepage Refactoring Content on InfoQ
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Building a Language for Spreadsheet Refactoring
Felienne Hermans introduces BumbleBee, a refactoring and metaprogramming spreadsheets tool based on a DSL that can perform transformations against spreadsheet formulas.
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Refactoring Functional Programs: Past and Future
Simon Thompson shows the particularities of functional programming refactoring through examples in Haskell and Erlang, and discusses what lays ahead for FP refactoring in the next 10 years.
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Keynote: 8 Lines of Code
Greg Young discusses eight lines of very common code finding in them massive numbers of dependencies and difficulties, looking for ways to get rid of them.
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Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code
Sandro Mancuso runs a hands-on demo adding tests to a Java legacy code then refactoring it.
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A DSL for Scripting Refactoring in Erlang
Simon Thompson introduces Wrangler, a refactoring tool written in Erlang for Erlang code and embeddable in common IDEs, such as Emacs and Eclipse.
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Stop Refactoring!
Nat Pryce considers that we cannot write the perfect code because it is never fully prepared for the coming change, so he suggests embracing impermanence & continual imperfection.
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Nothing Is Permanent Except Change - How Software Architects Can Embrace Change
Michael Stal discusses system architecture quality, how to avoid architectural erosion, how to deal with refactoring, and design principles for architecture evolution.
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A Scalable, Peer-led Model for Building Good Habits in Large & Diverse Development Teams
Jason Gorman presents how developers can learn TDD to the point of transforming the knowledge acquired into habits by exercising a number of practices followed by peer evaluation.
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Living and Working with Aging Software
Ralph Johnson discusses principles, practices and tools relating to software development starting from already existing code which needs refactoring, maintenance, and sometimes architectural change.
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The Limited Red Society
Joshua Kerievsky demos Parallel Change, a way of refactoring meant to reduce time spent in red when code does not compile and tests do not pass. He also talks about Narrowed Change and takes questions
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Pimp My Architecture
Dan North discusses an example of rearchitecting an application without rewriting it from scratch, and explains general strategies for a holistic rearchitecture.
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Modifiability: Or is there Design in Agility?
Martin Fowler & panelists explore the myth that agile methods mean an absence of design. Design still happens in agile projects, but it shifts from an up-front phase to a continual evolution.
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