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Extreme: Fake it ’til you make it

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Red – Green – (refactor)

We all know that refactoring is supposed to be the step that let’s us tease apart the logic of our code. ‘Fake it till you make it’ allows for us to evolve an emergent solution to complex problems. Yet this is usually glossed over when showing Test Driven Development.

But not in this session. Here we are going to focus completely on Fake it till you make it. Taking complex katas and reducing them to

1 Red – 1 Green – 40 Refactors.

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