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swagtricker | 3 years ago

Not only why is there a garbage book like "Essential Scrum", why is there no mention of any unit testing or TDD books? If the author is seriously going to plug Martin Fowler's Refactoring book but make no effort to call out any books to help guide in writing good quality tests, I'm starting to have serious doubts about the nature of those "10 years of experience". I don't care if you "buy into" TDD or not - refactoring without test coverage is flat-out "Cowboy coding": reckless & irresponsible.

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apocolyps6|3 years ago

> refactoring without test coverage is flat-out "Cowboy coding": reckless & irresponsible.

This is basically what Fowler says in his refactoring book. Actually, he says it's by definition not refactoring. I'm curious why you don't think it's worth reading.

Jtsummers|3 years ago

I suspect GP's complaint is not with Fowler, but with the list not including books that complement it. Like Beck's Test-Driven Development or Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code or some others.