Software Design: Tidy First?

Tidying: Chunk Statements

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Kent Beck
Feb 23, 2022
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This one wins the prize for simplest tidying. You're reading a big chunk of code & you realize, "Oh, this part does this and then that part does that." Put a blank line between the parts.

I like that this tidying is so so simple. That's part of the philosophy of Tidy First?--don't make software design such a big deal that you are in danger of not doing it.

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