GeeCON 2024: Thomas Sundberg - 20 years of the 4 rules of simple design

Celebrating over 20 years of the 4 rules of simple plan 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary since the second edition of the seminal book utmost Programming Explained by Kent Beck was published. This means that the 4 rules of simple plan have been around for a long time. It is possible that they have been around your full career. Do you know about them? They can be formulated as * Runs all the tests * Reveals intention * No duplicated logic * tiny Well, that can’t be besides hard to follow. Or is it? Let’s research these seemingly simple rules and see how they affect your code if decently applied. This will be a live coding session with quite a few refactoring applying the 4 rules of simple design.