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This article is filled with pretty obvious statements: You need to include failure reporting tools with your app and c'est tout. I disagree, however, with the
by alexitosrv 18y ago
This article is filled with pretty obvious statements:
You need to include failure reporting tools with your app and c'est tout.
I disagree, however, with the reasoning of getting rid of TDD to become a firefighter developer on the basis of exception logs. That can shoot yourself in the foot when your need to ensure system isn't broken when new features arrive.
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Am i the only one who is tired of getting almost every coding horror post on HN?
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- citizenparker 18y agoUnless I suck at reading (which is possible), I don't think he's advocating people get rid of TDD. "While there are many other valid reasons to practice TDD, as a pure bug fixing mechanism it's always seemed far too much like premature optimization for my tastes."
- vdm 18y agoIt also links to ELMAH, which I didn't know about, and which doesn't seem to exist for Java/Clojure. That's news to me.