Footnotes
Chapter 1
1. These include Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres, Martin Fowler, James Newkirk, Robert Martin, Ron Jeffries, Lisa Crispin, Tip House, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson.
2. Or someone else will. Sometimes breaking a problem up like this allows you to hand out tasks to experts. Perhaps someone on your team is an expert in the domain language of the tokens; you might hand off the tokenize() and normalize() methods to them.
3. ...which is not to say we don’t have some help for you on class cohesion. See Chapter 3, Define Tests Up Front, for more on this.
4. Not all comments are to be avoided, however. If the comment exists to make the code more readable, change the code to make it more readable on its own. If the comment exists to ...
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