Robert C. Martin Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert C. Martin
Robert C. Martin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.
Code, without tests, is not clean. No matter how elegant it is, no matter how readable and accessible, if it hath not tests, it be unclean. Dave
A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.
In an ideal system, we incorporate new features by extending the system, not by making modifications to existing code.
You are reading this book for two reasons. First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better programmer. Good. We need better programmers.
Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.
What this team did not realize was that having dirty tests is equivalent to, if not worse than, having no tests.
You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected." Half
How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.
Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.
That these acts are simple doesn't mean that they are simplistic, and it hardly means that they are easy.
If its dependencies are inverted, it has an OO design. If its dependencies are not inverted, it has a procedural design.
It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple!
Am I suggesting 100% test coverage? No, I'm not suggesting it. I'm demanding it. Every single line of code that you write should be tested. Period.
The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that.
The fact that the task to write perfect software is virtually impossible does not mean you aren't responsible for the imperfection.
So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.