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I inherited a code base with LOTS of test coverage. Made one small change and everything broke. Looked into the tests, oh the humanity!!! Dropped the test su
by dublinclontarf 9y ago
I inherited a code base with LOTS of test coverage.
Made one small change and everything broke.
Looked into the tests, oh the humanity!!!
Dropped the test suite entirely, haven't had any issues since.
We have VERY good logging and notifications though so anything goes wrong we know all about it.
- FroshKiller 9y agoYou know all about it at run-time.
- jacques_chester 9y ago> Dropped the test suite entirely, haven't had any issues since. That you know about. That bad test suites exist is unarguable. Bad production code exists too, but we don't give up on writing production code.
- wheresvic1 9y agoWhy not write tests that make sense then? It would definitely help in maintaining the code (not to mention not having to go through the entire code base when debugging a production issue).
- Nomentatus 9y agoI knew a guy who used to wire down safety features on old gas stoves. He said similar stuff about how unnecessary these were. He died (along with his daughter) a year or two later because he disregarded what ski areas were and weren't off limits. Something he'd no doubt done before without any problems. You're fine until you aren't.