Software Design: Tidy First?

TT? Section Intro for Refactorings

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Kent Beck
Jun 05, 2024
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After reading this intro you should be prepared to read a catalog of refactorings roughly on the scale of Fowler’s book. What needs to be added to this intro to make that more likely? What’s missing for you? What can be deferred?

As with Tidy First? we begin this book with things you can do to change the structure of your code. I work from specific to ge…

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