Chapter 5C References

Books

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin introduces responsibility, naming, and behavior-preserving design principles.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler explains the catalog of code smells and refactoring techniques.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides defines the classic creational, structural, and behavioral patterns.
Effective Java by Joshua Bloch provides practical guidance for encapsulation, APIs, collections, and maintenance in an object-oriented language.

The Refactoring Catalog organizes common smells and the transformations that commonly address them.
Refactoring Guru Design Patterns provides visual explanations, use cases, and trade-offs for classic patterns.
Martin Fowler’s Patterns Catalog describes enterprise architecture patterns and their forces.
Technical Debt explains why shortcuts create future work and why deliberate debt can sometimes be rational.