Pro PHP Refactoring

• Main Authors: Trucchia, Francesco (Author), Romei, Jacopo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lowman, Michelle (Editor), Andres, Clay (Editor), Anglin, Steve (Editor), Beckner, Mark (Editor), Buckingham, Ewan (Editor), Cornell, Gary (Editor), Gennick, Jonathan (Editor), Hassell, Jonathan (Editor), Moodie, Matthew (Editor), Parkes, Duncan (Editor), Pepper, Jeffrey (Editor), Pohlmann, Frank (Editor), Pundick, Douglas (Editor), Renow-Clarke, Ben (Editor), Shakeshaft, Dominic (Editor), Wade, Matt (Editor), Welsh, Tom (Editor), Castro, Anita (Editor), Fugate, Mary Ann (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Many businesses and organizations depend on older high-value PHP software that risks abandonment because it is impossible to maintain. The reasons for this may be that the software is not well designed; there is only one developer (the one who created the system) who can develop it because he didn’t...

Table of Contents:

• Finding “Bad Smells” in Code
• to Refactoring
• Principles and Rules
• Test-First Development
• Refactoring Tools
• Structuring Behavior
• Changing Class Responsibilities
• Dealing with Data Rationalization
• Reducing to Essential Conditional Executions
• Simplifying Method Calls
• Simplifying Generalization Relationships
• Legacy Code
• Regression Tests
• Refactoring with Patterns.