Kent Beck: Writing

Kent Beck is software engineer. Explore interesting quotes on writing.

Kent Beck: 26 quotes1 like

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15

“When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 88

“The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 98.