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Agile Technical Practices Distilled

By : Pedro M. Santos, Marco Consolaro, Alessandro Di Gioia
Book Image

Agile Technical Practices Distilled

By: Pedro M. Santos, Marco Consolaro, Alessandro Di Gioia

Overview of this book

The number of popular technical practices has grown exponentially in the last few years. Learning the common fundamental software development practices can help you become a better programmer. This book uses the term Agile as a wide umbrella and covers Agile principles and practices, as well as most methodologies associated with it. You’ll begin by discovering how driver-navigator, chess clock, and other techniques used in the pair programming approach introduce discipline while writing code. You’ll then learn to safely change the design of your code using refactoring. While learning these techniques, you’ll also explore various best practices to write efficient tests. The concluding chapters of the book delve deep into the SOLID principles - the five design principles that you can use to make your software more understandable, flexible and maintainable. By the end of the book, you will have discovered new ideas for improving your software design skills, the relationship within your team, and the way your business works.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1
7
Section 2
13
Section 3
19
Section 4
25
Chapter 21
28
License: CyberDojo

Katas

Character Copier by Urs Enzler

We found these katas on Urs Enzler's website: https://www.planetgeek.ch.

The character copier is a simple class that reads characters from a source and copies them to a destination one character at a time.

When the Copy method is called on the copier, then it should read characters from the source and copy them to the destination until the source returns a newline (\n).

The exercise is to implement the character copier using Test Doubles for the source and the destination (try using Spies – manually written Mocks – and Mocks written with a mocking framework). Start from these definitions:

Figure 8.7: Character copier
public class Copier
{
  public Copier(ISource source, IDestination destination) {...}
  public void Copy() {}
}
public interface ISource
{
  char GetChar();
}
public interface IDestination
{
  void SetChar(char character);
}

Instrument...