Tidy First? Kent Beck on Refactoring

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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
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[@EduardoWeidmanBarijan]

Nice talk and thanks the team for editing properly, balancing the presentation with the presenter. It makes it very enjoyable to watch

[@BangsarRia]

I was trained by Yourdon staff and others, themselves trained by Yourdon, Constantine and Weinberg, and I've never looked back. I don't think you could get a more solid foundation than that. Sadly, I never met Ed, Larry or Gerry.

[@michaelharings9913]

"Software design is an exercise in human relationships. (wtf?! where did that come from?)"--Kent Beck. Delightful.

[@GiuseppeProment]

Great talk, showing human relationship as the key point even talking about refactoring, i dont know if young programmers will get it right, I hope yes :-)

[@baharalirezaei3608]

what was the name of the book?

[@kevanschwitzer8585]

Great guy and nice presentation style. However, the content is lacking. There's little meat to it.

[@smallsnippets]

I support the last of your three sentences. It took more than 10minutes to start with the contents, and it was shallow. But of course the purpose of this talk is not to deliver much content, but to enhance selling of the book. But the wisdom at the end (in the last minute) was: deliver your big changes in small, save steps. I support that, but that's not a new wisdom. And so the talk could be one minute long... so he had good reason to thank the audience for listening to the whole talk...

[@MarcusHammarberg]

"Sorry about democracy". I ROFL

[@7th_CAV_Trooper]

Tidy in my current job is pulling on a sweater string. I keep rebuilding entire projects from scratch to make them testable.

[@BangsarRia]

@3:33 Kent discovers he's in a room full of PC C programmers

[@Besi812]

I say thinks that i don't know what I think. 100% true

[@Wielorybkek]

Now would be great to have a way to measure coupling. Without any metrics it's hard to make desicions and convince Waiters.

[@rishiraj2548]

👍🙏