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It takes about two seconds to determine whether or not someone used TDD to derive a set of unit tests. While it’s possible for someone to write as high-quality unit tests using TAD (test-after...
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I’m refactoring several classes of over 2000 lines each. These are classic god-classes that mediate a handful of stubby little data-centric classes around them. I reduced the first, primary domain...
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This simple file monitor class notifies listeners when a watched file is modified: public class FileMonitor { private Set<FileChangeListener> listeners = new HashSet<FileChangeListener>();...
View ArticleLearning Great Practices From Constraints
The Maryland high school I attended helped me get my early career off the ground. In 1980, I took my first computer class. A friend and his geek cohorts had already learned enough to swarm all over the...
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