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An interesting side issue here is that bad conceptual model gets the more entrenched the more tests you add. Fixing the flaw becomes almost impossible because i
by rumcajz 11y ago
An interesting side issue here is that bad conceptual model gets the more entrenched the more tests you add. Fixing the flaw becomes almost impossible because it breaks all the tests.
Testing is often presented as a panacea but this is one of the cases where it hurts more than helps.
- brianpan 11y agoThis is like saying the more developers you put on a project, the more entrenched you become...so developers are not a panacea. If you need to write quality code, you will need to invest in writing tests. If you wrote the wrong code, yes, you will need to rewrite the tests. But that's a different problem.
- rumcajz 11y ago> This is like saying the more developers you put on a project, the more entrenched you become...so developers are not a panacea. See Mythical Man-Month (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month)