Tidy First? Kent Beck on Refactoring

Video with transcript included on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3X300Bx Programmers face a software design dilemma hourly - I need to change this code, it's messy, do I tidy first? The answer is, of course, it depends. It depends on coupling/cohesion, economics, psychology, & teamwork. These are the same factors affecting all software design decisions but here we can study them under a microscope. #CodeQuality #Refactoring #SoftwareCraftsmanship ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow InfoQ: - Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom