﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ayende @ Rahien</title><link>http://ayende.com</link><description>Ayende @ Rahien</description><copyright>Copyright (C) Ayende Rahien  2004 - 2021 (c) 2026</copyright><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Jeff Brown commented on Hasty notes on Big Refactoring</title><description>I did one of these recently on MbUnit v3 to extract Gallio as a separate platform component.  That was erm... fun.
  
  
Julian said I should blog about it.  Maybe I should...
  
  
  
"Tests are a hindrance, not a help."
  
Yup.  The more tightly coupled they are, the worse.  Tests tend to make the system more rigid than it needs to be.  They don't "bend" -- they break outright -- and can take hours to fix because of all of the built-in superfluous assumptions.
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