Acknowledgement

Many thanks to all of the conference attendees who heard my It Was Like That When I Got Here presentation and who encouraged me to expand it into a full book. Without you, I would not have considered writing this at all.

Thank you to Adam Culp, who provided a thorough review of the work-in-progress, and for his concentration on refactoring approaches. Thanks also to Chris Hartjes, who went over the chapter on unit testing in depth and gave it his blessing. Many thanks to Luis Cordova, who acted as a work-in-progress editor and who corrected my many pronoun issues.

Finally, thanks to everyone who bought a copy of the book before it was complete, and especially to those who provided feedback and insightful questions regarding it. These include Hari KT (a long-time colleague on the Aura project), Ron Emaus, Gareth Evans, Jason Fuller, David Hurley, Stephen Lawrence, Elizabeth Tucker

Long, Chris Smith, and others too numerous to name. Your early support helped to assure me that writing the book was worthwhile.