This document discusses refactoring code to improve its structure and design without changing its external behavior. Refactoring includes techniques like extracting methods, moving methods between classes, simplifying conditional logic, and improving data structures. The goal of refactoring is to make code more readable, reusable, and maintainable by removing duplications and optimizing class relationships and communication. The document provides examples of code smells that indicate needs for refactoring and explains various refactoring techniques at the method, class, and architecture level.
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