A Software Garderner

Most of the legacy codebases I have work on suffered from primitive obsession. One of the symptoms is the presence of methods with a swarm of int, string or bool parameters. These methods harm the codebase as they are hard to understand and easy to misuse - which could cause bugs and headaches. This article aims to present a simple, yet extremely effective, solution to this issue through the use of parameter objects.

Legacy code is typically characterised by long methods that mix up different concepts and levels of abstraction. In this context, it can be hard to extract behaviour into proper modules because it feels like everything depends on everything and it would require a massive overhaul of the entire codebase. This article proposes to use events to reduce coupling between legacy code and other properly-bounded modules to either extract existing code or add new one.

The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP for short) is the “L” in the SOLID principles. Even though many people know this principle, at least by name, I cannot keep track of how many times it is skipped when the SOLID principles are being explained. Most of…

The test pyramid is a metaphor that illustrates the “ideal” weight of tests depending on their granularity. It goes from the unit tests at the base - which are more numerous - to the end-to-end tests at the top - which should be scarce. It…

As part of my work, I regularly have to refactor/rewrite some part of our system that has little test coverage, if any. Most of the time, the code is too big or complex to write a test suite comprehensive enough to give me the confidence…