In the same vein, an easy way to get the tests to pass is to add a bunch of "if" statements to handle each test case. Of course, that is counterproductive in te

In the same vein, an easy way to get the tests to pass is to add a bunch of "if" statements to handle each test case. Of course, that is counterproductive in terms of the usefulness of the software. However, because so much weight is put on testing, that is essentially what happens in school a lot of the time. For some reason, it seems more obviously absurd in the software context.