There’s like this three way war in testing between people who think they’re terrible and write tests that are self fulfilling prophecies, people who think terri

There’s like this three way war in testing between people who think they’re terrible and write tests that are self fulfilling prophecies, people who think terrible tests aren’t bad and good tests are “too much work”, and a small minority of people that think different tests are just different work and only take a bit of practice to do decently. It took me two mentors to feel like I could do tests worth having. Two more to feel I was good at it. And one more to realize everyone is terrible at them and I just suck less. There is definitely something wrong with testing. But nobody has cracked the code so we do this even though we know it’s often suboptimal. I recently hunted down guy #5 and asked him about my conclusion and he agreed.