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If all the programmers who write tests go into industry and none of them go into academia, then the state of software in academia will be... oh, I see, the stat
by jefftk 4y ago
If all the programmers who write tests go into industry and none of them go into academia, then the state of software in academia will be... oh, I see, the status quo.
- pca006132 4y agoNo, they do write tests, just 1. Include the ones that passed and discard those that failed. 2. Run the tests several times and report only the best result. 3. Keep some of the details secret (data, some weird parameters, or maybe the whole repository), tweak something, run again, get some nice figures and publish a new paper.
- WalterBright 4y agoCaltech has Millikan's (oil drop experiment demonstrating quantization of charge) notebooks. He repeated the experiment until the data fit his theory. Fortunately, he turned out to be right.