The Humble Dialog Box

A 2002 article by Michael Feathers. This article introduced the idea of dealing with a hard-to-test GUI behavior by minimizing the behavior within the GUI element, moving as much as possible to a separate object that’s easier to test. This idea was generalized into the Humble Object pattern.

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https://martinfowler.com/articles/humble-dialog-box.html

Created 3y | Feb 7, 2022, 5:20:23 PM


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