Exploring Extreme Programming
The Template Method design pattern defines an algorithm in an abstract class, and defers some steps to its subclasses. A Strategy defines a family of pluggable implementations. We’ll see how to convert from Template Method to Strategy. Template Method A Continue reading Refactor Template Method to Strategy
Software design and design patterns are both broad topics where a lot has been written; this is necessarily a sampling. Other Resources: TDD, Refactoring, CI/CD, BDD [Disclosure: Note that I may have been involved in some of the materials mentioned Continue reading Resources on Software Design and Patterns
Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET, by Jimmy Nilsson. Addison-Wesley, 2006. Stir together Eric Evans’ Domain-Driven Design with Martin Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, mix in C# code, and you’ve got the flavor of this Continue reading Review: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns (Nilsson)
Some unit tests are focused, other are like a run-on sentence. How can we create tests that are focused and communicate well? Arrange-act-assert is a pattern for good tests. What’s a good structure for a unit test? 3A: Arrange, Act, Continue reading 3A – Arrange, Act, Assert
Sample chapter – Adapter. Continue reading Design Patterns in Java – Sample Chapter – Adapter
Design Patterns in Java. Steve Metsker and William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2006. I won’t review my own book, but I will summarize: This is a workbook-style book, updating Steve’s earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. It covers the same 23 Continue reading Review – Design Patterns in Java
Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Design patterns and refactoring have been related for a long time. (Consider that Ralph Johnson, one of the co-authors of Design Patterns, was a sponsor of the work that created the original refactoring Continue reading Review – Refactoring to Patterns
A way to initialize a Java object. Continue reading Pattern Patter: Anonymous Subclass with Instance Initializer
Domain-Driven Design, by Eric Evans. Addison Wesley, 2004. Evans has developed a pattern language that focuses on how thinking about our domain needs to be of primary importance in developing software. This understanding should show up consistently in how customers Continue reading Review – Domain-Driven Design
These patterns (or perhaps proto-patterns) discuss how to use iteration retrospectives as a way of helping a team reflect on and learn from the project while it’s still going on. Continue reading Patterns for Iteration Retrospectives