Software Design: Tidy First?

Genie Fight

Pitting genies against each other can result in better outcomes

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Kent Beck
Aug 18, 2025
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The goal of the B+ Tree Project is to see if an augmented coding project can result in a library-quality data structure. Reliability is job #1 & performance is job #2 & if both jobs aren’t done then the experiment doesn’t support the hypothesis.

Tests have done a decent job of assessing reliability. Some day I’ll talk about the fuzz tester I had the geni…

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