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Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition - Second Edition
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Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition - Second Edition

by Viktor Farcic, Alex Garcia
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
324 pages
8h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Removing the primitive obsession with status as int

We have decided to also tackle the optional item in our to-do list.

The to-do list:

  • Dependency injection in BooksEndpoint for books
  • Change status for statuses
  • Remove the primitive obsession with status (optional)
The smell: Primitive obsession involves using primitive data types to represent domain ideas. For example, we use a string to represent a message, an integer to represent an amount of money, or a struct/dictionary/hash to represent a specific object.  The source is http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrimitiveObsession.

As this is a refactor step (that is, we are not introducing any new behavior into the system), we don't need any new specification. We will proceed and try to always stay ...

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