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Tidy First? Kent Beck on Refactoring
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- Presented by Kent Beck
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
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Tools and practiceSoftware designRefactoring and legacy codeDesign patternsDeveloper productivity
Kent Beck discusses the economics, psychology, and timing of refactoring, exploring when and how to tidy messy code.
Video with transcript included on InfoQ: bit.ly/3X300Bx Programmers face a software design dilemma hourly - I need to change this code, it's messy, do I tidy first? The answer is, of course, it depends. It depends on coupling/cohesion, economics, psychology, & teamwork. These are the same factors affecting all software design decisions but here we can study them under a microscope. #CodeQuality #Refactoring #SoftwareCraftsmanship ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow InfoQ: - Mastodon: techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom