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Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) by Joshua Kerievsky; Martin Fowler; Ralph Johnson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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I heard a lot of praise regarding this book, so I decided to buy it. Overall it's a good book but I was kind of hoping for something more. The author does a lot of references to "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler and to THE Design Patterns book (Gamma ...). In my view this book is more like a "how to understand and utilize" those previous two books and might increase the understanding for when to apply design patterns and when to avoid it. I'd say that the examples used in this book is very good and they certainly do feel like non-fabricated examples. The Author's reasoning to when and how to refactor code in the examples are well described and easy to follow. I think that if you studied Design Patterns & Refactoring and had problems understanding when or how to utilize what you learned during those books, then this book might be something for you. This might also be interesting if you wonder how to (as the title suggest) refactor towards a pattern. However, I think that where this book fails is that in a lot of situations refactoring toward patterns is to overcomplicate a code base when there are much easier solutions at hand. Finally I'd like to say that this is certainly a good

Who reads Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)?

Author

Joshua Kerievsky; Martin Fowler; Ralph Johnson

Publisher

Addison Wesley Professional Pearson Education [distributor

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780321630568

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Engineering, Language Learning

Rating

4 / 5 (1,001 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14