Refactoring: Improve the design of existing code

REFACTORING Improving the Design of Existing code Software Engineering II Class (Lect. 6) Valerio Maggio, Ph.D. Student A.A. 2011/12 Prof. Marco Faella

• What does “Refactoring” means? ‣ When should you refactor your code/design? ‣ Why should you refactor your code/design? ‣ Refactoring Principles • Typical Refactorings • Bad Smells & Solutions OUTLINE

(CODE) REFACTORING • The art of safely improving the design of existing code [Fowler09] • Implications: [Fowler09] ‣ Refactoring does not include any change to the system ‣ Refactoring is not “Rewriting from scratch” ‣ Refactoring is not just any restructuring intended to improve the code Refactoring: (Deﬁnition) Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure. [Fowler02]

REFACTORING • Basic Metaphor: ‣ Start with an existing code and make it better; ‣ Change the internal structure while preserving the overall semantics. • Goals: ‣ Reduce near-duplicate code ‣ Improve comprehension and maintainability while reducing coupling

THE REFACTORING CYCLE start with working, tested code while the design can be simplified do: choose the worst smell select a refactoring that addresses that smell apply the refactoring check that the tests still pass •KWs: •Tested Code ‣Importance of Testing in Refactoring ‣Why testing? •(Code) Smells ‣Fragments of code that contain some design mistake

• Refactor when you add a function • Refactor when you ﬁx a bug • Refactor for Greater Understanding WHEN SHOULDYOU REFACTOR? The Rule of Three: The ﬁrst time you do something, you just do it. The second time you do something similar, you wince at the duplication, but you do the duplicate thing anyway. The third time you do something similar, you refactor. [Fowler09]

• Refactoring improves the design of software ‣ Without refactoring the design of the program will decay ‣ Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things • Refactoring makes software easier to understand ‣ In most software development environments, somebody else will eventually have to read your code • Refactoring helps you ﬁnd bugs WHY SHOULDYOU REFACTOR?

• Programs that are hard to read, are hard to modify. • Programs that have duplicated logic, are hard to modify. • Programs that require additional behavior requiring changing code are hard to modify. • Programs with complex conditional logic are hard to modify. • Refactoring makes code more readable WHY REFACTORING WORKS?

Good O-O Practices REFACTORING

• Short methods ‣ Simple method logic • Few instance variables • Clear object responsibilities ‣ State the purpose of the class in one sentence ‣ No super-intelligent objects GOOD SIGNS OF OO THINKING

• The Dependency Inversion Principle ‣Depend on abstractions, not concrete implementations •Write to an interface, not a class • The Interface Segregation Principle ‣Many small interfaces are better than one “fat” one • The Acyclic Dependencies Principle ‣Dependencies between package must not form cycles. •Break cycles by forming new packages SOME PRINCIPLES

• The Common Closure Principle ‣Classes that change together, belong together •Classes within a released component should share common closure.That is, if one needs to be changed, they all are likely to need to be changed. • The Common Reuse Principle ‣Classes that aren’t reused together don’t belong together •The classes in a package are reused together. If you reuse one of the classes in a package, you reuse them all. PACKAGES, MODULES AND OTHER

TYPICAL REFACTORINGS Refactoring in Action

REFACTORINGSTABLE Class Refactorings Method Refactorings Attribute Refactorings add (sub)class to hierarchy add method to class add variable to class rename class rename method rename variable remove class remove method remove variable extract class push method down push variable down push method up pull variable up add parameter to method create accessors move method abstract variable extract code in new method replace parameter with method

• Behavior on a superclass is relevant only for some of its subclasses. • Move it to those subclasses. PUSH METHOD DOWN Engineer + getQuota() SalesMan Employee + getQuota() Employee Salesman Engineer

• You have methods with identical results on subclasses. • Move them to the superclass PUSH METHOD UP + getName() Salesman Employee + getName() Engineer + getName() Employee Salesman Engineer

• A method needs more information from its caller. • Add a parameter for an object that can pass on this information. ADD PARAMETERTO METHOD +getContact() Customer +getContact(Date) Customer

EXTRACT METHOD void printOwing() { printBanner(); //print details System.out.println ("name: " + _name); System.out.println ("amount " + getOutstanding()); } void printOwing() { printBanner(); printDetails(getOutstanding()); } void printDetails (double outstanding) { System.out.println ("name: " + _name); System.out.println ("amount " + outstanding); }

BAD SMELLS IN CODE If it stinks, change it.

BAD SMELLS IN CODE • By now you have idea of what refactoring is! • But, you have no concrete indication on when refactoring should be applied! Bad Smells: (General Deﬁnition) Pieces of code that are wrong (in some sense) and that are ugly to see. [Fowler09]

BAD SMELLS IN CODE (1) Symptoms Bad Smell Name Missing Inheritance or delegation Duplicated code Inadequate decomposition Long Method Too many responsibility Large/God Class Object is missing Long Parameter List Missing polymorphism TypeTests

BAD SMELLS IN CODE (2) Symptoms Bad Smell Name Same class changes differently depending on addition Divergent Change Small changes affects too many objects Shotgun Surgery Method needing too much information from another object Feature Envy Data that are always used together Data Clumps Changes in one hierarchy require change in another hierarchy Parallel Inheritance Hierarchy

BAD SMELLS IN CODE (3) Symptoms Bad Smell Name Class that does too little Lazy Class Class with too many delegating methods Middle Man Attributes only used partially under certain circumstances Temporary Field Coupled classes, internal representation dependencies Message Chains Class containing only accessors Data Classes

DUPLICATED CODE Problem: Finding the same code structure in more than one place Solution: Perform Extract Method and invoke the code from both places Problem: Having the same expression in two sibling subclasses Solution: Perform Extract Method in both classes and the Pull Up Field (a) (b)

LONG METHOD Problem: Finding a very long method Solution: Perform Extract Method and improve responsibilities distribution Problem: Finding a very long method whose statements operates on different parameters/variables Solution: Extract Class (a) (b)

LARGE CLASS Problem: Finding a class that does too much (too many responsibilities) Solution: Perform Extract (Sub)Class and improve responsibilities distribution Rule of Thumb: • When a class is trying to do too much, it often shows up as too many instance variables. • When a class has too many instance variables, duplicated code cannot be far behind

LONG PARAMETER LIST Problem: Finding a method that has a very long parameter list Solution: Replace Parameters with Methods or Introduce Parameter Object ‣ [Old School] Pass everything as a parameter instead of using global data. public void marry(String name, int age, boolean gender, String name2, int age2, boolean gender2) {...}

DIVERGENT CHANGE Problem: Divergent change occurs when one class is commonly changed in different ways for different reasons Solution: identify everything that changes for a particular cause and use Extract Class to put them all together ‣ Violation of Separation of Concerns principle

SHOTGUN SURGERY Problem: Every time you make a kind of change, you have to make a lot of little changes to a lot of different classes. Solution: Use Move Method and Move Field to put all the changes in a single class. • When the changes are all over the place they are hard to ﬁnd, and its easy to miss an important change. • Results of Copy&Paste programming

FEATURE ENVY A classic [code] smell is a method that seems more interested in a class other than the one it is in.The most common focus of the envy is the data. [Fowler02] Problem: Finding a (part of a) method that makes heavy use of data and methods from another class Solution: Use Move/Extract Method to put it in the more desired class.

DATA CLUMPS Problem: Finding same three or four data items together in lots of places (Fields in a couple of classes, Parameters in many method signatures) Solution (1): look for where the clumps appear as ﬁelds and use Extract Class to turn the clumps into an object Solution (2): For method parameters use Introduce Parameter Object to slim them down

PRIMITIVE OBSESSION People new to objects are sometimes reluctant to use small objects for small tasks, such as money classes that combine numbers and currency ranges with an upper and lower. Problem: Your primitive needs any additional data or behavior. Solution: Use Extract Class to turn primitives into a Class.

TYPE TESTS Problem: Finding a switch statement checking the type of an instance object (no Polymorphism). Solution: Use Extract Method to extract the switch statement and then Move Method to get it into the class where the polymorphism is needed The essence of polymorphism is that instead of asking an object what type it is and then invoking some behavior based on the answer, you just invoke the behavior.

PARALLEL INHERITANCE HIERARCHIES Problem: every time you make a subclass of one class, you have to make a subclass of another (special case of Shotgun Surgery). Solution: Use Move Method and Move Field to collapse pairwise features and remove duplications.

LAZY CLASS Problem: Finding a class that is not doing “enough”. Solution: If you have subclasses that are not doing enough try to use Collapse Hierarchy and nearly useless components should be subjected to Inline Class

SPECULATIVE GENERALIZATION Problem: You get this smell when someone says "I think we need the ability to do this someday" and you need all sorts of hooks and special cases to handle things that are not required. Solution: (1) If you have abstract classes that are not doing enough then use Collapse Hierarchy (2) Unnecessary delegation can be removed with Inline Class (3) Methods with unused parameters should be subject to Remove Parameter (4) Methods named with odd abstract names should be repaired with Rename Method

TEMPORARY FIELD Problem: Finding an object in which an instance variable is set only in certain circumstances. (We usually expect an object to use all of its variables) Solution: Use Extract Class to create a home for these orphan variables by putting all the code that uses the variable into the component.

MESSAGE CHAINS Problem: Message chains occur when you see a client that asks one object for another object, which the client then asks for yet another object, which the client then asks for yet another object, etc. intermediate.getProvider().doSomething() ch = vehicle->getChassis(); body = ch->getBody(); shell = body->getShell(); material = shell->getMaterial(); props = material->getProperties(); color = props->getColor();

ELIMINATE NAVIGATION CODE … engine.carburetor.fuelValveOpen = true Engine +carburetor Car -engine +increaseSpeed() Carburetor +fuelValveOpen Engine -carburetor +speedUp() Car -engine +increaseSpeed() … engine.speedUp() carburetor.fuelValveOpen = true Carburetor +fuelValveOpen Car -engine +increaseSpeed() Carburetor -fuelValveOpen +openFuelValve() Engine -carburetor +speedUp() carburetor.openFuelValve()fuelValveOpen = true

• One the major features of Objects is encapsulation • Encapsulation often comes with delegation • Sometimes delegation can go to far • For example if you ﬁnd half the methods are delegated to another class it might be time to use Remove Middle Man and talk to the object that really knows what is going on • If only a few methods are not doing much, use Inline Method to inline them into the caller • If there is additional behavior, you can use Replace Delegation with Inheritance to turn the middle man into a subclass of the real object MIDDLE MAN

REMOVE MIDDLE MAN Client Department +getManager() Person Client +getDepartment() Person +getManager() Department

WHAT’S NEXT? • In the next class, we will: a. Analyze together a (quite) real case study. b.Focus on the design of each (Java) class c. Apply some Refactoring directly into an IDE • to understand what “Refactoring” means in practice • to see Refactoring features embedded into Eclipse

REFERENCES • [Fowler02] M. Fowler, K. Beck; Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Addison Wesley, 2002 • [Fowler09] J. Fields, S. Harvie, M.Fowler, K. Beck; Refactoring in Ruby,Addison Wesley, 2009 • http://martinfowler.com/refactoring/catalog/ index.html

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