Join me on Saturday May 23rd at 9:50 BST with other self-funding learners to get hands on with the micro-cycles and small steps of Test-Driven Development. You know how it is when folks agree on something, but in their heads they have very different pictures of what it is they think they’re agreeing on? I get that a lot when I talk about working in “small steps”. They nod enthusiastically and we all agree that small steps are a good thing. And then I look at the size of their commits. Or they look at the size of mine. And now we don’t agree. We don’t agree at all. Aside from being a classic example of where “Don’t tell me, show me” can aid in communication, it’s generally useful to contrast and compare our place in a distribution, and maybe recalibrate our expectations. To give you an idea, pay close attention to how little code I change before I run my tests and – if they pass – commit those changes, before making the next change in this demonstration of refactoring.
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