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Agile Technical Practices Distilled

You're reading from   Agile Technical Practices Distilled A learning journey in technical practices and principles of software design

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838980849
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Consolaro Marco Consolaro
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Alessandro Di Gioia Alessandro Di Gioia
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Pedro M. Santos Pedro M. Santos
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Pedro M. Santos
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Table of Contents (31) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1
2. Chapter 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2 4. Chapter 3 5. Chapter 4 6. Chapter 5 7. Section 2
8. Chapter 6 9. Chapter 7 10. Chapter 8 11. Chapter 9 12. Chapter 10 13. Section 3
14. Chapter 11 15. Chapter 12 16. Chapter 13 17. Chapter 14 18. Chapter 15 19. Section 4
20. Chapter 16 21. Chapter 17 22. Chapter 18 23. Chapter 19 24. Chapter 20 25. Chapter 21
26. Chapter 22 27. Chapter 23 28. License: CyberDojo
29. Sample Solutions
30. Feedback

The Classic TDD Approach

The classic TDD approach revolves around the idea of creating messy code and constantly refactoring it to clean it up. The mess in classic TDD is critical, since it provides feedback for refactoring the design.

The ideas of implementing the simplest thing that can work, and deferring important design decisions, are at the heart of classic TDD. The refactoring phase in classic TDD is vital; hence, good refactoring skills are key to its success. So having an understanding about code smells, the SOLID principles, and cohesion/coupling and connascence is a major advantage in changing the shape of the code before the mess turns into code that's too difficult to refactor.

The importance of the mess is highlighted by the Rule of Three, which stops us from premature refactors, maximizing the feedback to find the right pattern. The secret to this style of TDD lies in having the right amount of mess to provide feedback for design decisions, but not so much...

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