Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 with JUnit

A Little Bit o’ Refactor

If you’ve recently arrived from Proxima Centauri in a slow warp drive that required fifteen years of travel time, you might not have heard the term refactoring. Otherwise, you at least recognize it from the menus in your IDE. You might even be aware that refactoring your code means you’re transforming its underlying structure while retaining its existing functional behavior.

In other words, refactoring is moving code bits around and making sure the system still works. Willy-nilly restructuring of code sounds risky! By gosh, you really want to make sure you have appropriate protection when doing so. You know…tests.

An Opportunity for Refactoring

Let’s revisit the iloveyouboss code. You wrote a couple of tests with us ...