One of the driving forces of “Clean Code” is that while it takes a certain amount of time to write code, that same code is read many times. Clean Code is aimed at reducing the reading and hence understanding time of the code.
We recently had a practical session, as part of our continuous learning practice, on TDD. After the first few tests, Doug got into some serious refactoring to make the code clean. As Doug progressed, I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with the numerous methods, many of which had 1 or 2 lines of code, that he created.
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