Blog: the code whisperer (J. B. Rainsberger)

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Investing Wisely in Architecture Through Refactoring A member of my mentoring group started a discussion regarding this article: Victor Rentea's "Overengineering in Onion/Hexagonal Architecture... 9 09-01-2023 20:24:24 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

A Matter of Interpretation: Mock Objects In the middle of a discussion about test doubles/mock objects and their role in design, someone posted this: Reminder: arguing against a too... 10 27-12-2022 05:58:15 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

What's Not To Like About This Code? An Experiment. Code Reviews have a bad reputation. It seems easy to do them poorly, to create friction, to hurt people, and to waste both time and energy d... 7 20-12-2022 16:19:08 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

What is 'the Right' Amount of Refactoring? A mentoring client of mine said this recently: I took ownership of some strategically pivotal code and did precisely that, typically refacto... 14 25-08-2022 02:40:01 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

What is Refactoring? What is refactoring? You'd think that, in 2022, we'd have long settled this question already. Yes and no. A Problem I routinely encounter pr... 11 29-07-2022 19:14:28 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

Why Refactoring Is Not Always a Code Smell Someone is circulating a talk a concise one, which I appreciate entitled "Refactoring is a code-smell" (sic). Before I continue, let me make... 11 08-06-2022 21:13:39 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

Stepping Around a TDD Roadblock I think a lot of people fall off the TDD wagon because of this exact thing they learn TDD by working on new code and then can't seem to appl... 9 11-04-2022 16:04:32 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? Too many people are writing too many articles trying to direct others' thinking on their own testing strategies. I am guilty of this and wou... 18 03-04-2022 15:00:28 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

The Saff Squeeze I like it when programming feels boring. I prefer to save the excitement for the actually difficult parts of the job of developing software:... 12 28-03-2022 16:17:55 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

Polynomial Kata in 46 Commits I noticed that Ron Jeffries had written about a kata I hadn't tried before, so I decided to try it. The exercise involves evaluating a polyn... 6 05-02-2022 00:38:30 the code whispere ... (J. B. Rainsberger) Agile & Testing

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