Interesting Talk: "In Search of Doors"

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• In Search of Doors

The Beverages Prices Refactoring kata: a kata to practice refactoring away from an awful application of inheritance.

I created the Beverages Prices Refactoring kata for the Deliberate Practice Program I’m running at Lifull Connect offices in Barcelona (previously Trovit). Its goal is to practice refactoring away from a bad usage of inheritance.

The code computes the price of the different beverages that are sold in a coffe house. There are some supplements that can be added to those beverages. Each supplement increases the price a bit. Not all combinations of drinks and supplements are possible.

Just having a quick look at the tests of the initial code would give you an idea of the kind of problems it might have:

If that’s not enough have a look at its inheritance hierarchy:

To make things worse, we are asked to add an optional cinnamon supplement that costs 0.05€ to all our existing catalog of beverages. We think we should refactor this code a bit before introducing the new feature.

We hope you have fun practicing refactoring with this kata.

Books I read (January - March 2019)

January
- Timeless Laws of Software Development, Jerry Fitzpatrick
- Writing to Learn, William Zinsser
- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
- Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software, David Scott Bernstein

February
- Refactoring Workbook, William C. Wake
- Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

March
- Home, Nnedi Okorafor
- The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor
- Developer Hegemony, Erik Dietrich
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy