Foreword by Dr. Stéphane Ducasse
Working with real and large object-oriented applications made me and my coauthors (O. Nierstrasz and S. Demeyer) think about object-oriented reengineering patterns. Our idea was to record good approaches to handle these systems at the design level but also with a bit of process. This is how Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns (http://scg.unibe.ch/download/oorp/) came to life after 3 years of intensive work. In the same period I reviewed the book “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code” by Martin Fowler because we were working on language-independent refactorings. To me, books like these are milestones. They create a foundation for our engineering science.
When as JOT associate editor, I saw the authors’ ...
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