Tidy First?

by Kent Beck

Tidying up messy software is a must. And that means breaking up the code to make it more readable -- "tidying" the code to make it more understandable. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings in your code to improve it while keeping the overall structure of the system in mind. Instead of trying to master tidying all at once, this book lets readers try out a few examples that make