3 ms·

There's no such thing as painless testing.

• gotofritz 10y ago
  If it ain't hurting, you ain't doing it right.
• onion2k 10y ago
  Maintaining disorganised code hurts a lot more than writing tests.
• rpastuszak 10y ago
  But it hurts so good. As opposed to the alternative, which is dealing with technical dept, spaghetti, legacy code, etc...
  • amelius 10y ago
    Testing and technical debt/spaghetti code/legacy code are not mutually exclusive.
    • shados 10y ago
      you're right. But testing bad code is really really hard. So usually tested code is somewhat better overall, just because it's the easiest way to do it.
• blauditore 10y ago
  If you develop the tests along with the main code, it's usually less painful, except if there's a hunk of legacy code to integrate your new one with. Ok, this is probably the case for most developers...