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Refactoring with C#

By : Matt Eland
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Book Image

Refactoring with C#

5 (1)
By: Matt Eland

Overview of this book

Software projects start as brand-new greenfield projects, but invariably become muddied in technical debt far sooner than you’d expect. In Refactoring with C#, you'll explore what technical debt is and how it arises before walking through the process of safely refactoring C# code using modern tooling in Visual Studio and more recent C# language features using C# 12 and .NET 8. This book will guide you through the process of refactoring safely through advanced unit testing with XUnit and libraries like Moq, Snapper, and Scientist .NET. You'll explore maintainable code through SOLID principles and defensive coding techniques made possible in newer versions of C#. You'll also find out how to run code analysis and write custom Roslyn analyzers to detect and resolve issues unique to your code. The nature of coding is changing, and you'll explore how to use AI with the GitHub Copilot Chat to refactor, test, document, and generate code before ending with a discussion about communicating technical debt to leadership and getting organizational buy-in to refactor your code in enterprise organizations and in agile teams. By the end of this book, you'll understand the nature of refactoring and see how you can safely, effectively, and repeatably pay down the technical debt in your application while adding value to your business.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Part 1: Refactoring with C# in Visual Studio
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Part 2: Refactoring Safely
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Part 3: Advanced Refactoring with AI and Code Analysis
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Part 4: Refactoring in the Enterprise

Introducing the Cloudy Skies API

Our fictitious sample organization, Cloudy Skies, has a pre-existing set of web services in the form of a public REST API. This API intends to allow interested organizations to pull information about Cloudy Skies flights through the API. However, a steady amount of support tickets has proven that organizations are having a hard time adopting the API and using it in approved ways.

In response, Cloudy Skies has built a .NET library to help others more easily use the API.

Early testing of this library is promising, but some developers are still encountering confusing errors that ultimately appear to be related to the data they’re passing the library.

The development team decided that validating parameters to public methods would help improve the adoption of their library by finding issues sooner. We’ll explore this change in the next section.