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Difficult to even imagine a project that could fail business-wise because some developer wrote too many easy unit tests. Do you know of such cases?
by vesak 10y ago
Difficult to even imagine a project that could fail business-wise because some developer wrote too many easy unit tests. Do you know of such cases?
- repomies691 10y agoI know cases where too much focus on tests might be reason for a startup failure. Eg. instead of trying to find the product-market fit, resources are spent building tests, and then funding runs out. Of course it is very difficult to argue whether test writing was the issue or something else, and people have different incentives related to that.
- bryanrasmussen 10y agoprobably won't fail business-wise, but will cost incrementally more for each test business-wise.
- vesak 10y agoSignificantly?
- repomies69 10y agoDepends on the business case. I don't think this answer can be generalized either way. You can lose a business because of the heavy costs which add little value, however it is not easily arguable that a specific cost was the deal-breaker.