Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pion…

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