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Agile Technical Practices Distilled

By : Santos, Consolaro, Di Gioia
Book Image

Agile Technical Practices Distilled

By: Santos, Consolaro, 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

Connascence of Name and Type (CoN and CoT)

The concept of connascence pervades anything we do when we work on software development. Every line of code displays some element of it as the logical building blocks of programs.

To understand how the concept of connascence influences so much of what we do in our code, let's look at an example:

public class Time {
    int _hour;
    int _minute;
    int _second;
    public Time(int hour, int minute, int second){
        _hour = hour;
        _minute = minute;
        _second = second;
    }
    public string Display(){
        return _hour + ":" + _minute + ":" + _second + ":";
    }
}

We can see that...