Recognising and Eliminating Code Smells 101

Eliminating Code Smells

This is the instructions page for the Recognising and Eliminating Code Smells 101-workshop & Eliminating Code Smells-activity at TestBash UK 2022.

Hangouts link for screen sharing: meet.google.com/qok-vjrn-yvi

Please follow these instructions before the workshop respectively activity starts.

There's two different ways of preparing for the workshop/ activity: An online editor (for nos so experienced people), and a local installation (for more experienced people).

Online IDE

For not so experienced people, if you don't know what an IDE and or JDK is, this is for you.

Create an account at GitHub.com

Go to gitpod.io and click "Try now"

Select "Continue with GitHub", login and grant access to gitpod.io

Select "VS Code *BROWSER*" and click "Continue"

Select "New workspace"

Copy & paste https://github.com/christianbaumann/code-smells-workshop into the search field and select the result

Install the "Extension Pack for Java" by clicking install (see notificaiton at the bottom right)

On the top left you see the file structure of the project, navigate to src/test/java/dev/christianbaumann/password and open PasswordTests.java.

Run the tests by clicking the "Run" button. ➟ You should see the passing tests at the left.

Local installation

For more experienced people, I will not go into detail here.

Have your IDE of choice for Java ready (IntelliJ, Eclipse, VS Code, whatever you prefer, it doesn't really matter).
Have Java installed
Clone and import the following project: https://github.com/christianbaumann/code-smells-workshop
Make sure you can execute the tests in src/test/java/dev/christianbaumann