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Category: Refactoring

How code comments deteriorate

There was a lot of disagreement on the value of code comments after my earlier post Comments considered harmful . Perhaps the most important objection that was raised was the idea that it's OK to improve the code, but it's even better to keep the comments in addition to the improved code....

Beautiful code

Max Horwath has published his slides on Making Selenium Test Writing easier using a DSL online from IPC 2008 . Let me quote the whole short description: Implementing automated tests by using Seleniums API methods has several drawbacks. Selenium is great for what...

Refactoring is design

Refactoring is by definition a design actitivity, since the definition of refactoring is "improving the design of existing code". But is this generally and fully recognized? After attending my friendly local agile conference ( Smidig2008 —sorry, it's in Norwegian), I'm getting more of...
 
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