The Lift Pass Pricing Kata is a refactoring kata, which means that we start with an existing codebase. You can find the original instructions and the starting source code fot the kata here.
In this kata, we have an existing application that is a web API endpoint used to determine the price for buying a single pass to ride on a ski lift. This code is not written to be testable or reusable, which makes it a great candidate for our purpose of practicing refactoring.
Instructions
The applicatoin is currently only able to provide the price of one pass at a time, so a consuming application would need to call this endpoint multiple times in order to get the prices for multiple tickets.
New Feature Request: We need to be able to request the price for more than one lift pass at a time.
Suggested Steps
- Create a set of characterization tests using high-level functional testing at the endpoint level.
- Change the code to make future testing and the addtion of the new feature easier.
- Create unit tests where possible.
- Write code to allow multiple passes to be priced with appropriate tests on the new code.
Tips
- Start with integration tests that rely on the database to ensure existing functionality is maintained.
- Extract code where possible to separate the API endpoint, database access, and the business logic.
- Create unit tests when possible around the extracted business logic.
Database Installation
This application uses a MySql database by default. The instructions for setting up this database can be found with the original source samples.