Jon Reid

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https://qualitycoding.org Author of iOS Unit Testing by Example https://iosunittestingbyexample.com. Technical coach, ex-Industrial Logic. Over 20 years of #TDD. Code with joy, drive down your cost of change. he/him

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> ❯ Elegant Objects by Yegor Bugayenko recommends against `-er` names ⏺ Good catch — TipsBootstrapper has the same -er shape as Controller. Bugayenko's critique: -er/-or names describe a job title (what it does) rather than what the object is, and tend to signal procedural thinking smuggled into an object. Looking at what's already in the codebase, the existing names are all "thing" nouns, not agent nouns: SavedFile, KeyValueStore, TemplateRepository, TipsResetStore — none end in -er. ⭐ TipsStartup — names the thing itself (the startup routine/state), matches the noun convention already in use, and still reads naturally as TipsStartup.create().configureForLaunch(...). ❌ TipsSetup — close second, but "setup" reads slightly more like a one-time action than a persistent thing. ❌ TipsLifecycle — accurate but broader than what the object actually does (it only handles the launch moment, not the full lifecycle). ❌ TipsLaunch — reads oddly as a type name (TipsLaunch.create() sounds like invoking a launch, not building an object). Want TipsStartup in the plan?
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In the industry, legacy code is often used as a slang term for difficult-to-change code that we don't understand. But over years of working with teams, helping them get past serious code problems, I've arrived at a different definition. To me, legacy code is simply code without tests. I've gotten some grief for this definition. What do tests have to do with whether code is bad? To me, the answer is straightforward, and it is a point that I elaborate throughout the book: Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse. You might think that this is severe. What about clean code? If a code base is very clean and well structured, isn't that enough? Well, make no mistake. I love clean code. I love it more than most people I know, but while clean code is good, it's not enough.
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