RATFT (Refactor All The F***ing Time)
Anthony Eden • Lyon, France • Talk

Date: August 23, 2012
Published: August 24, 2012
Announced: unknown

You know you should be testing all the time, but do you know why you are testing all the time? One of the main benefits of testing all the time is that it lets you refactor with impunity. Unfortunately too many times we leave the "refactor" out of the red-green-refactor. In this talk I will convince you that you should be refactoring all the time and I'll show you some of the techniques on how you can do it. With good refactoring techniques and regular refactoring even the hairiest of codebases can be tamed.

Anthony Eden is the founder of DNSimple and the perpetrator of numerous open source projects such as ActiveWarehouse and Rails SQL Views. Anthony has also contributed to a wide variety of open source projects over the past 17 years as a software developer across a variety of languages including Java, Python and Ruby. Anthony currently lives near Montpellier, France.

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