otter-skills
Copyright 2026 Tim Ottinger

This product includes ideas distilled from publicly available writings and
teaching by the following people. Their inclusion here is attribution, not a
claim that they endorse this project or license its original source material:

- Tim Ottinger: progressive admission, microtesting, the Eight Code Virtues,
  naming, and related software-craft practices published through Agile Otter
  and Industrial Logic.
- Industrial Logic: Clean Start, Save Your Game, structure-shy tests, and its
  body of software-craft teaching and practice.
- Kent Beck: test-driven development, test lists, Tidy First?, and incremental
  design practices.
- Michael Feathers: legacy-code change mechanics, seams, and characterization.
- Martin Fowler: the refactoring vocabulary and catalog.
- Emily Bache and Llewellyn Falco: approval-testing and legacy-code practices.
- GeePaw Hill: microtest rhythm and incremental switchover.

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skills that use them.
