Java Refactoring: Best Practices
Frustrated or slowed down by messy code? Don't wait for someone else to clean it up - learn how to refactor and do it yourself! This course will walk you through what you need to know for refactoring.
What you'll learn
Technical debt grows with the size of any software project. Without refactoring it will eventually fail, thus refactoring may be considered an essential skill of any professional software engineer.
In this course, Java Refactoring: Best Practices, you will learn how to efficiently refactor and produce cleaner software. First, you will see what code smells are, and why they are bad for your codebase. Then, you will explore how to recognize and refactor them using a variety of techniques to achieve cleaner and more maintainable code. Finally, you will discover the most important principles that apply to refactoring and clean code.
By the end of this course, you will have the necessary skills to convert a mess into flexible and robust software, one line at a time.
Table of contents
- Defining Bloaters 4m
- Introducing the Project 3m
- Long Parameter List 2m
- Long Method 5m
- Contrived Complexity 3m
- Primitive Obsession: Preserve Whole Object 3m
- Primitive Obsession: Introduce Object 3m
- Data Clumps 4m
- Combine Entities 2m
- Primitive Obsession: What We Didn't Cover 1m
- Large Class 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Andrejs is a Quality Assurance professional with over 6 years of experience. He specializes in Test Automation but does not neglect the importance of getting involved in the Software Development Life Cycle early - finding issues during requirements analysis is as important as doing manual and exploratory testing. He is experienced in writing unit, integration and acceptance tests for a wide number of technologies and contexts - from browser automation to the Web API layer and all the way to test... more