Credits

Inspired by Gabriele Tondi

Goal

A legacy refactor kata, focused on the violation of the tell don’t ask principle and the anemic domain model.

Description

Here you find a simple order flow application. It’s able to create orders, do some calculation (totals and taxes), and manage them (approval/reject and shipment).

The old development team did not find the time to build a proper domain model but instead preferred to use a procedural style, building this anemic domain model. Fortunately, they did at least take the time to write unit tests for the code.

Your new CTO, after many bugs caused by this application, asked you to refactor this code to make it more maintainable and reliable.

Get the Code

On GitHub (This kata can be done using C#, Java, Ruby, Scala, TypeScript) If your favorite language is missing, feel free to create a pull request. Be sure the maintainer will be happy ;-)

Image credits

Image by Rachel M. Carmena. It represents a greeting of respect and gratitude made at the beginning and at the end of a kata.