Testing Yourself

These are interesting times for people who care about refactoring. The 2nd edition of Martin Fowler’s book Refactoring has just been released. As if that weren’t enough, Kent Beck recently wrote up a workflow called test && commit || revert, which can be seen as a new alternative to Test-Driven Development.

It might not be obvious why these two events are related, but if you take time to click through and read Kent’s write-up on the practice (and try it out), one of the things that y...