Many Java codebases contain code that is overly complicated, hard to understand, and hence expensive to change. It doesn’t have to be that way, and in this presentation you will see how easily obtained version-control data let us uncover the behavior and patterns of the development organization to prioritize and …
This talk will bring you on a refactoring journey. It starts from code that is easy to write but hard to read, and gradually advances to a level where the 4 C’s of good code are satisfied: Correctness, Completeness, Clearness, and Compactness.
Let’s face it, the system you maintain isn’t meeting expectations. The crystal ball you were issued at engineer academy was broken, and you guessed wrong about how the system would grow. Now, you’re faced with a choice: should you bite the bullet and rewrite, or should you somehow try to …
Test-driven development, refactoring, evolutionary design… these Agile engineering techniques have long been established for back-end code. But what about the front-end? For too many teams, it’s dismissed with a “JavaScript sucks!” and unreliable, brittle code. This session explores what it takes to bring the best of Agile development to front-end …
Even in an agile world, specifications often go too far and describe solutions with too much details; all these premature decisions constraint the implementation and remove opportunities. There is a remedy: refactoring the specs, even before refactoring the code. In the TDD cycle, refactoring is the art of restructuring the …
Ruby Rails as a framework is famous for getting an application up and running quickly, but the very paradigms that make it so easy at the start can lead to maintenance nightmares down the road. Successful applications grow rapidly larger, more complex, and harder to extend and maintain.
