Bye Bye Cowboy Coder Days! (Legacy Code & TDD)

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Bye Bye Cowboy- Coder days!

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Bye Bye Cowboy-Coder days! by Vytautas Dagilis. „Working Effectively with Legacy Code“- one of the best books which talks about Unit testing and TDD. Presentation covers best practices listed in the book as well as shows which of them were successfully implemented in practice. You will find out how to commit changes and be sure that they work even without running and testing application itself.

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Bye Bye Cowboy-Coder days!

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What do developers do for living?Change the code!

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Four Reasons to Change Software• Adding a feature• Fixing a bug• Improving the design• Optimizing resource usage

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Changing Software

Adding a Feature

Fixing a Bug Refactoring Optimizing

Structure Changes Changes ChangesNew Functionality

Changes

Functionality ChangesResource Usage

Changes

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Preserving behavior

Existing Behavior New Behavior

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Risky Change

1. What changes do we have to make?2. How will we know that we've done them

correctly?3. How will we know that we haven't broken

anything?

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How?

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Working with Feedback!

Yes, Unit Tests…

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Few qualities of Unit Tests

• They run fast• They help us localize problems

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Dependencies…

• No way to run separately• Takes time to load• Hard to localize problem

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GUI Tests

Integration Tests

Unit Tests

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GUI Tests

Integration TestsUnit Tests

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Lag Time

1 Minute 10 Minutes 1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week

Time to fix/Price

Time to fix/Price

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The Legacy Code Dilemma

When we change code, we should have tests in place. To put tests in place, we often have to change code.

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The Legacy Code Change Algorithm1. Identify change points2. Find test points3. Break dependencies4. Write tests5. Make changes and refactor

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Sensing and Separation

• We break dependencies to sense when we can't access values our code computes• We break dependencies to separate when we can't even get a piece of code into a test harness to run

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Faking Collaborators

• Fake Objects• Mock Objects• Nothing!

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Sprout

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Sprout Method

1. Identify where to change2. Wdown a method call and then comment it out.3. Determine what local variables you need for

the call4. Determine return value5. Develop the sprout method using test-driven

development6. Remove the comment in the source method

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Sprout Class

1. Identify where you need to make your code change.2. Write class in that place, and call a method; then

comment those lines out3. Determine what local variables you need from the

source method, and make them arguments to the classes' constructor

4. Determine return values to the source method and add a call in the source method to receive those values.

5. Develop the sprout class test first6. Remove the comment in the source

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Wrap

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Wrap Method

1. Identify a method you need to change2. If the change can be formulated as a single

sequence of statements in one place, develop a new method for it using test-driven development

3. Create another method that calls the new method and the old method

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Wrap Class

1. Identify a method where you need to make a change.

2. Create a class that accepts the class you are going to wrap as a constructor argument.

3. Create a method on that class, using test-driven development.

4. Write another method that calls the new method and the old method on the wrapped class

5. Instantiate the wrapper class in your code in the place where you need to enable the new behavior

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TDD and Legacy Code

1. Get the class you want to change under test2. Write a failing test case3. Get it to compile4. Make it pass (Try not to change existing code

as you do this)5. Remove duplication6. Repeat

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Allways check if tests are testing1. Write test and new code in separate changelist2. Shelve new code change list3. Ensure tests are failing

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Characterization Tests

1. Use a piece of code in a test harness2. Write an assertion that you know will fail -

let the failure tell you what the behavior is3. Change the test so that it expects the

behavior that the code produces4. Repeat

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I Can't Get This Class into a Test Harness• Lean on the Compiler• Extract Interface• Extract Implementer• Subclass and Override Method • Parameterize Constructor• Parameterize Method• Extract and Override Getter• Extract and Override Factory Method• Singleton Design Pattern

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When All Else Fails, Do Some Scratch Refactoring

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Questions?

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Agile Turas Lietuvoje

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The World’s Best Intro to TDD

• J. B. Rainsberger, Kanada• 2 Dienų mokymai, Kaune• Rugsėjo 23 - 24 d.

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