Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics

Length: 432 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2021-10-22
ISBN-10: 013691571X
ISBN-13: 9780136915713
Sales Rank: #242522 (See Top 100 Books)

In Clean Craftsmanship, the legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) has written every programmer’s definitive guide to working well. Martin brings together the disciplines, standards, and ethics you need to deliver robust, effective code quickly and productively, and be proud of all the software you write — every single day.

Martin, the best-selling author of The Clean Coder, begins with a pragmatic, technical, and prescriptive guide to five foundational disciplines of software craftsmanship: test-driven development, refactoring, simple design, collaborative programming (pairing), and acceptance tests. Next, he moves up to standards — outlining the baseline expectations the world has of software developers, illuminating how those often differ from their own perspectives, and helping you repair the mismatch. Finally, he turns to the ethics of the programming profession, describing ten fundamental promises all software developers should make to their colleagues, their users, and above all, themselves.

With Martin’s guidance and advice, you can consistently write code that builds trust instead of undermining it — trust among your users and throughout a society that depends on software for its very survival.

Cover Page
About This eBook
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. Craftsmanship
Part I: The Disciplines
    Extreme Programming
    Test-Driven Development
    Refactoring
    Simple Design
    Collaborative Programming
    Acceptance Tests
    Chapter 2. Test-Driven Development
        Overview
        The Basics
        Conclusion
    Chapter 3. Advanced TDD
        Sort 1
        Sort 2
        Getting Stuck
        Arrange, Act, Assert
        Test Doubles
        Architecture
        Conclusion
    Chapter 4. Test Design
        Testing Databases
        Testing GUIs
        Test Patterns
        Test-Specific Subclass
        Humble Object
        Test Design
        Breaking the Correspondence
        Transformation Priority Premise
        {} → Nil
        Nil → Constant
        Unconditional → Selection
        Value → List
        Statement → Recursion
        Selection → Iteration
        Value → Mutated Value
        The Transformation Priority Premise
        Conclusion
    Chapter 5. Refactoring
        What Is Refactoring?
        The Basic Toolkit
        Extract Method
        The Disciplines
        Conclusion
    Chapter 6. Simple Design
        YAGNI
        Covered by Tests
        Coverage
        Design?
        Maximize Expression
        The Underlying Abstraction
        Minimize Duplication
        Minimize Size
    Chapter 7. Collaborative Programming
    Chapter 8. Acceptance Tests
        The Discipline
        The Continuous Build
Part II: The Standards
    Your New CTO
    Chapter 9. Productivity
        We Will Never Ship S**T
        Inexpensive Adaptability
        We Will Always Be Ready
        Stable Productivity
    Chapter 10. Quality
        Continuous Improvement
        Fearless Competence
        Extreme Quality
        We Will Not Dump on QA
        QA Will Find Nothing
        Test Automation
        Automated Testing and User Interfaces
        Testing the User Interface
    Chapter 11. Courage
        We Cover for Each Other
        Honest Estimates
        You Must Say NO
        Continuous Aggressive Learning
        Mentoring
Part III: The Ethics
    The First Programmer
    Seventy-Five Years
    Nerds and Saviors
    Role Models and Villains
    We Rule the World
    Catastrophes
    The Oath
    Chapter 12. Harm
        First, Do No Harm
        Best Work
        Repeatable Proof
    Chapter 13. Integrity
        Small Cycles
        Relentless Improvement
        Maintain High Productivity
    Chapter 14. Teamwork
        Work as a Team
        Estimate Honestly and Fairly
        Respect
        Never Stop Learning
Index
Code Snippets