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[Colin Jack]

Hi,

First off I should say I am enjoying reading about Mikado Method and
intend to try it.

On the book in general, I am 75% through the book and have a few
comments.

First is that I feel some of it was a little repetitive. Not to say
the ideas are not good but I do think you could cut out some of the
content. In particular i thimk the chapters on the mikado method
itself overlap quite a bit.

I would also consider moving some conent, such as the sections on
SOLID, to an appendix especialy as they aren't long enough to give
more than a flavor.

I also feel the book would benefit from more in depth discussion of
rewrites in general and other strategies like strangler.

In addition your coverage of testing, in particular writing tests to
supporting refactoring could be more detailed especially as it's such
an important topic. For example on page 126 you say getting code
coverage on a poorly designed codebase can lock up the code to future
changes, this could do with a good deal more discussion. Maybe even
worth discussing the tradeoffs with each type of test with regards to
the refactoring you do with the mikado method?

Thanks,

Colin Jack

[Daniel Brolund]

Hi Colin,

Thanks for your excellent feedback! We are happy that you are ready to
give it a try, that means we have accomplished a part of the goal with
the book.

We generally tend to assume that our readers know exactly what we
know, which make some parts a bit thin and incomplete. Thanks for
helping us by pointing a few of them out! :-)

Cheers
Daniel

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