Hello and welcome back, fellas!
This week, it was all about learning how to properly refactor existing code. Therefor, we worked through chapter one of Martin Fowler’s book “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”. In this chapter, he starts with some example code and explains the first steps he takes when refactoring code. We started with the same code and followed along his steps, with the difference that we have more tools on hand than he had back in 1999 when he wrote the book. After every major refactoring step, we committed our changes so you can easily follow along. If you’re interested in our solutions, you can find them here:
Georg: https://github.com/Reboooooorn/SE-refactoring
Henning: https://github.com/henningxtro/DHBW_SE_Refactoring
Patrick: https://github.com/Mueller-Patrick/DHBW-SWE-Refactoring
During these (fairly not too complicated) refactoring steps, we found that the favorite refactoring features of our IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, were the abilities to extract code into an own method and to move an existing method over to another class. As IntelliJ handled most of the required steps like adding required method parameters almost perfectly by itself, it really made the job almost too easy for us.
As always, we hope you enjoyed reading our perspective of this weeks tasks and are looking forward to seeing you next week!
Hello Team,
This weeks task is well explained, I looked at the GitHub from each of you three.
I see you followed the steps from chapter book so you did a great job. But now to your Blog I really like that you used IntelliJ as IDE and use all of his benefits, we the TaskHub team use it too so we understand that you think this task was a little bit to easy for you.
We will follow your project and hope we will see more Betterzone updates in the future,
sincerely team TaskHub
Hello Team,
Your Blogpost explains the task for this Week really well. Your Code looks also good. We hope that we can use some of the mehtods for Refactoring in IntelliJ you mentioned in our Project.
Dear DHBWar