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A easy way of making code into "paragraphs" with comments is to just move it into a function. So in the end, this large function you're talking about, is just calling the other ones, creating a paragraph while the functions are just "words". Makes it easy to test and no need for comments :)

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This creates the risk of making what you are doing explicit at the cost of obscuring why you are doing something.

I frequently catch tests in code reviews that don't make it clear why something is being tested and what the overall expected result is beyond the effects being tested.

If the methods you are creating are private and for the purpose of segmenting a block of code, you really shouldn't be testing it directly, as it almost certainly won't be part of your public API.

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