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Refactoring with C#

By : Matt Eland
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Book Image

Refactoring with C#

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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

Refactoring the flight tracker

This chapter’s code focuses largely on a single FlightTracker class intended to track and display the outgoing flights from a commercial airport for passengers in the terminal, as pictured in Figure 4.1:

Figure 4.1 – FlightTracker displaying outbound flight statuses

Figure 4.1 – FlightTracker displaying outbound flight statuses

The FlightTracker class has a number of methods related to managing and displaying flights. It is supported by the Flight class which represents an individual flight in the system and the FlightStatus enum which represents all relevant statuses of a flight, as shown in the class diagram in Figure 4.2:

Figure 4.2 – A class diagram showing FlightTracker and supporting classes

Figure 4.2 – A class diagram showing FlightTracker and supporting classes

We’ll explore these pieces of code throughout this chapter, but for now, we need to understand that the key responsibilities of FlightTracker include the following:

  • Tracking a list of flights
  • Scheduling new flights (adding...