Screencast: FizzBuzz kata
This week, at the meetup of my local software craftsmanship group, we did a mini code retreat with the FizzBuzz kata. In advance I had a discussion with Benjamin, that this Kata could be a bit to easy for a code retreat. My point was here, that IMHO is not done completely. Most people stop on a function like this:
public string Translate(int value)
{
var result = string.Empty;
if (value % 3 == 0)
result += "Fizz";
if (value % 5 == 0)
result += "Buzz";
if (value % 3 != 0 && value % 5 != 0)
result += value.ToString();
return result;
}This is fine, as long you don’t want to extend the kata with different rules.
Imagine you got up to this point and now you get a new requirement:
Extend the Translation function so it prints
- “Bang” for all values divisible by 7
- “FizzBang” for values divisible by 3 and 7
- “BuzzBang” for values divisible by 5 and 7 and
- “FizzBuzzBang” for values divisible by 3, 5 and 7
Surely you could just add another if statement but how ugly is that. This is the point, where the TDD-Part of the kata converts to a refactoring kata.
Here you can see my take on this kata.
It features a solution completely free of if statements and is quite good extendable. The resulting Translator class must never been touched anymore. All you have to do for different rules is to write a different RuleFactory. If you want to play you could even implement a RuleFactory which reads its rules from an XML file.
The project for Xamarin Studio can be found here.
You can get the music under http://www.jamendo.com/de/track/259936/scherzo-no.-4-in-e-major-op.-54-1843
Have Fun