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ASP.NET Web API 2: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish
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ASP.NET Web API 2: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish

by Jamie Kurtz, Brian Wortman
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 19m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 9

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Completing the Picture

In his highly-acclaimed book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Prentice Hall, 2004), Michael Feathers states:

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.

He demonstrates how what he calls the “Cover [with tests] and Modify” approach is more efficient than the “Edit and Pray [because there are no automated tests]” approach. And although most of us know this, ...

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