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title: "Video - Refactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2013/10/14/video-refactoring-and-design-skills-for-test-driven-developm.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2013/10/14/video-refactoring-and-design-skills-for-test-driven-developm.html"
published: "2013-10-14T17:54:10"
updated: "2013-10-14T17:54:10"
tags: ["Unit Testing", "video"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Last week I presented a keynote and a talk at the London Software Architect conference. Here is the video I recorded from my laptop during my talk about refactoring. I hope you find it useful. Play video Refactoring and…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Video - Refactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development

By Roy Osherove October 14, 2013 In [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing), [video](https://osherove.com/blog/category/video)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 14, 2013; technical details may be outdated.

Last week I presented a keynote and a talk at the [London Software Architect conference.](http://software-architect.co.uk/) Here is the video I recorded from my laptop during my talk about refactoring. I hope you find it useful.

[![](https://osherove.com/img/video/yt-9ZSbuwCmwuc.jpg)Play videoRefactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development SA2013](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZSbuwCmwuc)

## Lessons on this topic

- [The Big Refactor](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/tdd-pairing-sessions-building-a-go-game/the-big-refactor/) · TDD Pairing Sessions - Building a Go Game

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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