Martin FowlerKent BeckJohn BrantWilliam OpdykeDon - Refactoring

Improving the Design of Existing Code

Martin Fowler

With contributions by Kent Beck,
John Brant, William Opdyke, and
Don Roberts

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Fowler, Martin,
Refactoring : improving the design of existing code / Martin
Fowler.
p. m. (The Addison-Wesley object technology series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-201-48567-2
1. Software refactoring. 2. Object-oriented programming (Computer
science) I. Title. II. Series.
QA76.76.R42F69 1999
005.14dc21 9920765
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