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I guess it all depends on the value of developer time vs the cost of releasing with an undiscovered bug. In any case, I'm glad the industry is starting to real
by osigurdson 3y ago
I guess it all depends on the value of developer time vs the cost of releasing with an undiscovered bug.
In any case, I'm glad the industry is starting to realize that tests are code, code can have bugs and code can be stupid.
- TylerE 3y agoWhat’s kinda funny is that there have been a few where we’ve had old code tests written sort of in the form of “try this thing which this system should reject as impossible” and then you realize that after your change that in fact the business rules actually handle this corner case gracefully instead of exposing… I’ll admit this trade off is probably helped by our clients being mostly state govt, so they’re often grateful to get anything at all functional. One never wants to ship bugs, we’ve actually had plenty of positive client interaction along the lines of “Hey, we’re just impressed you caught it and are the process of pushing a fix before we even noticed”.
- osigurdson 3y agoThis is a nitpick' but I wish the phrase "business logic" should go away. Are we not just testing logic? It makes all software sound like a tax preparation program.