Refactoring - Continuous Improvement of Your Code Base

This is a high level talk about many of the misconceptions surrounding refactoring, including
What refactoring looks like
Why refactoring is often neglected
The pace of change
Making better choices
The ROI on improvements

This talk is broken in 5 sections:

Evolutionary design
The most common misconception is that refactoring is a mini-rewrite of a section of code. Instead we are going to look into what microevolution looks and feels like. As well and the double edged sword as to why it is both extremely successful yet often unappreciated.

Code Smells
Using cutting edge pattern recognizing training we will show managers and programmers alike how to spot bad code at a glance

Naming

Explore Arlo Belshee 7 steps of improving the naming of your code.

10 X
The ROI (return on investment) is one of the most misunderstood part, because the math is very non-intuitive. Here we will explore why 8,402 is 10 times better than 8,333 ?!?

About Llewellyn Falco

Llewellyn Falco is an independent agile coach. He discovered strong-style pair programming. He is creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests( www.approvaltests.com ). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C# specializing in improving legacy code.He is the co-founder of TeachingKidsProgramming.org & co-author of Mob Programming Guidebook

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