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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
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avg rating 4.24 — 8,893 ratings — published 1999
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,517 ratings — published 1993
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 23,871 ratings — published 2007
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 5,000 ratings — published 2018
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,697 ratings — published 2004
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,092 ratings — published 2022
Code Health Guardian: The Old-New Role of a Human Programmer in the AI Era (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 33 ratings — published
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,100 ratings — published 2004
Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.56 — 631 ratings — published
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 9,367 ratings — published 2011
Clean Code in Python: Refactor your legacy code base (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 141 ratings — published
Beyond Legacy Code (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 102 ratings — published 2015
Game Programming Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,629 ratings — published 2011
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Alan Apt Series)
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avg rating 4.25 — 1,324 ratings — published 2002
“Tests shouldn’t verify units of code. Instead they should verify units of behavior: something that is meaningful for the problem domain and ideally something that a business person can recognize as useful. The number of classes it takes to implement such a unit of behavior is irrelevant. The unit could span across multiple classes or only one class, or even take up just a tiny method. [...] A test should tell a story about the problem your code helps to share, and this story should be cohesive and meaningful to a non-programmer.”
― Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns
― Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns