Refactoring

Advanced Programming Concepts 2014

23-27 June 2014
MPI Munich, Germany
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Lecture

The lecture summarizes the main concepts of refactoring, with special attention to refactoring physics code.

Slides

References for further study

M. Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
M. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Prentice Hall, 2004
S. Demeyer, S. Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz, Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, 2009
Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Prentice Hall, 2008

Exercise 1: The Video Store Example

This exercise is based on the "Video Store Example" described in Chapter 1 of the Refactoring book by M. Fowler. red77.gif Slides

Exercise 2: Refactoring real-life physics code

This exercise deals with the calculation of the photoelectric cross section in Geant4 standard electromagnetic package. red77.gif Slides

Last modified 15/6/2014 - Maria Grazia Pia