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The tests are an important part of the lesson for certain. Even better is the lesson that throwing a test spec over the wall to your development team may result
by mmastrac 10y ago
The tests are an important part of the lesson for certain. Even better is the lesson that throwing a test spec over the wall to your development team may result in them writing code that passes the test but isn't necessarily ideal for production.
I've played many hours of this game and have committed many grievous programming sins to improve my scores.
- legulere 10y ago> throwing a test spec over the wall to your development team may result in them writing code that passes the test but isn't necessarily ideal for production. This is also known as Goodhart's law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- otakucode 10y agoThat sounds similar to an XY problem. You actually need help with X, but you think you already know how to go about it so you ask about your approach, Y, instead... resulting in whatever answers you get being much worse than if you had actually clearly explained what you were doing in the first place.