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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenonbeta/kopete/kopete/protocols/msn
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () ism ! nl>
Date:       2002-04-10 12:22:42
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On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:48, Marc Mutz wrote:
> Actually, what's new with refactoring isn't to take small steps. It's that
> you choose one of the defined refactorings and write tests _before_ you
> start to go down the particular's refectoring's list and run them after
> _every_ change.

Hmm, I'd guess so... I haven't read very much on the subject, so if you have 
some good pointers for me, they'd be welcome. I merely considered 
'refactoring' a synonym of 'restructuring code without adding new stuff and 
without trashing the code completely in the mean time, like when doing a real 
rewrite'. Carsten's mail already seemed to indicate refactoring is more than 
just that and actually has a whole thought behind it - I didn't know that.

> So: where are your tests, man? ;-)

Hmm, in this particular case I guess that simply making everything compile 
again after making data members private is more than adequate. I did run 
Kopete after that, but I seriously didn't expect any problems at that point.

But again, docs are welcome :-)

Martijn

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