An Overview of the Mikado Method
The complete process follows an initially daunting nine-step cycle. Once you’ve worked your way through the cycle a few times, however, it won’t be far from second nature. You’ll ingrain it even faster than the TDD cycle.
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Draw the Mikado Goal, an end state you want to reach.
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Implement the goal in a naive manner.
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Find any errors.
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Derive immediate solutions to the errors.
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Draw the immediate solutions as new prerequisites.
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Revert code to its initial state if there were errors.
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Repeat steps 2 through 6 for each immediate solution.
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Check in code if there were no errors; mark the prerequisite goal complete.
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Is the Mikado Goal met? If so, you are done!
Most of the days or weeks you end up spending on a large refactoring ...
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