>> Obviously, the Mikado Method cannot work if you don’t have a good and highly reliable automated test suite. > But if you have a good test suite, then there

>> Obviously, the Mikado Method cannot work if you don’t have a good and highly reliable automated test suite. > But if you have a good test suite, then there should be no problem shipping the big change in one go! The author is referring here to unit test suites. These cannot catch every problem that may arise due to refactoring when integrating the refactored code with the rest of the code base. His method basically means that we should look for incremental integraton tests to catch such problems early.