Software Design: Tidy First?

Tidying: One Pile

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Kent Beck
Mar 07, 2022
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[Here is the last tidying in the catalog. Next you’ll see chapters on managing the process of tidying to trade off positive & negative impact.]

Sometimes you read code that's been split into many tiny pieces but split in a way that hinders you from understanding it. Inline as much of the code you need until it's all in one big pile. Tidy from there.

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