Classic old-school TDD recommends refactoring as part of every cycle — red, green, refactor. In fact, it recommends refactoring mercilessly. Relentlessly. To succeed at classic TDD, you have to be some kind of refactoring maniac!
Testing is a fundamental part of the Agile process. We live and breathe TDD/BDD. Red/Green/Refactor is our daily mantra. We love cucumber and writing executable, customer readable specifications. We even write tests for our JavaScripts. And yet, testing remains hard. The tests we love to write are brittle and tend …
Badly written tests are a nightmare of many agile projects. Hard to understand and maintain test suite sometimes act as a brake on introducing changes. This presentations discuss basic techniques of refactoring test code. During live coding session you will see how to simplify non-readable tests in few simple test …
This video removes the duplication in the add and subtract classes by introducing an abstract base class. The end result is a use of the template method pattern. [vimeo 10639853 480 360] Video Producer: Brett L. Schuchert
An example of refactoring to clean up a python script. [vimeo 7642937 400 635] Blog source of the video
Success on an Agile project relies heavily on the people in the trenches. Developers, testers, and product managers focused together, can deliver astonishing accomplishments in a short amount of time. Extraordinary results require discipline, motivation and alignment. Test Driven Development (TDD) and Refactoring creates the momentum to help developers organically …
