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If I had a dollar for each frontend test that actually don't actually test anything I would be able to retire by now!

• bdjsiqoocwk 2y ago
  Cargo cult testing. Some people don't understand the point of testing so they just go thru the motions and end up with something that makes no sense.
  • blitzar 2y ago
    "It passed all the tests so it must be working, it must be something you are doing wrong"
  • throwawaysleep 2y ago
    Only needs to be management that misunderstands. I’ve written plenty of do nothing tests in my time to be sure that management regularly got a report of tests being added.
• orwin 2y ago
  Tests that don't test anything come in at least two categories for me: - test that were useless, are still useless and will always be useless - tests that are currently useless but were used in the "wtf should i write" phase of coding (templating/TDD/ whatever you want to call it). I'm partial towards the seconds, and i like when they're not removed, because often you understand how the API/algorithm was coded thanks to them (and its often unit tests). But ideally, both should be out of a codebase.