What Are the Goals of This Book?

This book is a workbook designed to help you

• Practice recognizing the most important smells (i.e., problems)

• Apply the most important refactoring techniques

• Think more about how to create great code

• Have fun!

To a smaller extent, this book is a reference book with

• A smell finder inside the covers

• A standard format for describing smells

• An appendix listing Java tools supporting refactoring

• An appendix showing key refactorings