Refactoring Patterns

I read MartinFowler's article (see ReFactor) where he gives an example of how refactoring works in practice. That made me wonder whether there are patterns here. I've attempted to write a couple of them down, almost all of them shamelessly stolen from Martin's article. Feel free to comment and edit for clarity or brevity. --MarnixKlooster

First there some patterns about refactoring in general:

BodyguardPattern
RefactoringHat
RefactorInVerySmallSteps
TestEveryRefactoring

And there are also specific techniques that one can use:

MethodObject -- a pattern
ExtractMethod
MoveMethod
InheritDontBranch -- for advice
InlineMethod

You really must read MartinFowler's RefactoringImprovingTheDesignOfExistingCode.

See AboutRefactoringPatterns.

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