[ZPT] [OT] XP

[Chris Withers]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I guess this ends up being a question for the XP lists, I wonder what the
> > recommended XP way of tackling this problem is?
> 
> Alas, we're not following XP very strictly -- we've written most tests
> after writing the code, and we're not doing strict code reviews.  Both
> appear to be pretty serious XP sins. :-(

Yeah, just after I hit send, I remembered... refactoring gets you out of the
above mess and should leave you with clean, robust code verified by a smaller
number of tests due to the reduced logical complexity and lack of code
duplciation.

That's the theory, anyway ;-)

Chris