DbC Design by Coding - Allen Holub

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[@BryonLape]

I guess I remain the weird one. I don't want to read your code, no matter how wonderful and beautiful it is, to understand how it works. Give me your API docs. If I have more questions, then perhaps I will read it. I should not have to read your damn code to use it.

[@houssemzaier]

You're a big fan of A.Holub I think, every time I watch one of his videos I find your comments :) could you recommend some must read books for OO design and Agile(agility)

[@BryonLape]

I'm not sure I'm a fan as much as I am intrigued by some of his ideas.

[@lytecyde]

"Growing OO programs with TDD", "Junit in action", "TDD explained" also look into design thinking, look a the criticism of SCRUM

[@migoy]

If you have test suite, arent they better than the api docs or serves even better(just my thoughts)?

[@andres.a.traves]

The interface is the API docs. You have the type signatures and you can add javadoc style comments on every definition. There you have the API docs. You don't need to read the actual implementation. Nobody wants to read implementations in order to understand how to use an API. This is what Allen is trying to point out.