January 25, 2019

TDD Pro-Tip: Wrap framework collection classes early and often. The Primitive Obsession smell is ubiquitous around collections, and not seeing and fixing it can greatly hamper productivity. In HollywoodSimulator, a common act of every Person is to spend time manipulating their little black book — the collection of the contacts they have. The first-pass way to represent this would be to use a framework collection class. In Java/Kotlin, that’s List<Person>. List<Person> is not a primitive, far from it, in Java […]