SmartFactor User Guide: Introduction

What is SmartFactor?

SmartFactor is a tool you can use when you want to refactor an Eiffel program.

Refactoring is changing the structure of the souce code of your software, without changing its behaviour. It was first defined by Extreme Programming

Simple examples are rename a class or rename a feature (and any references to them in the universe).

Some (most?) refactorings can be fully automated. That's what SmartFactor is about.

Some links:

the Portland Pattern Repository is an excellent source of Object-oriented material
Refactoring with Martin Fowler, a conversation with Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler is one of the "big guys" in that area. He also wrote an excellent book about Refactoring

Last modified: Mon Oct 11 07:18:34 CEST 2004