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A review by rjbs
Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck
4.0
I found the first two parts to be a well-written rehash of things I've read many times before. It was fine, but I was not the audience. It discusses the isolated value of tidying code (refactoring, in the classic parlance).
The third part was very good. It puts the isolated value of tidying code into its economic context, competing with time to begin delivering value as soon as possible. Neither wins, and Beck provides analogies and analysis on how to make decisions about these priorities. Some of it was "things I knew, but expressed very clearly", and some of them were new ideas to me.
Also, it was short!
The third part was very good. It puts the isolated value of tidying code into its economic context, competing with time to begin delivering value as soon as possible. Neither wins, and Beck provides analogies and analysis on how to make decisions about these priorities. Some of it was "things I knew, but expressed very clearly", and some of them were new ideas to me.
Also, it was short!