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		arkh on Oct 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a good read: it presents what kind of code you want to attain and methods to get there from a crappy code base. The definition of legacy code for the author (which I like) is: untested code. So the book is more about getting code in a testable state than random refactoring to get to Clean Code level.

josteink on Oct 27, 2017 [–]

That book is indeed good, at least on a personal level.

It has helped me refine what I consider good code and good effort wrt to testing.

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