Searls After Dark #4 - Refactoring vs. Testing

What's this about?

In this episode, Justin decides what to do with the messy class we wrote last week: should we extract refactor several classes out of it? Or delete it and test-drive a fresh implementation using Mocktail and Minitest?

Author

Justin Searls

Justin Searls

Co-founded testdouble.com

Programming is inherently difficult, but most innovations heralded by the industry attempt to paper over its complexity, inadvertently making it harder for people to understand how to build and maintain working software. My mission is to identify, explain, and mitigate this phenomenon.