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minus-squareprojectmoon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up26·12 days agoThis guy would fit in well at my previous job where the founder discouraged writing unit tests because “there are too many scenarios to test.” Like, wtf…
minus-squareBrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·12 days agoIt’s been the hardest thing for me to instill good testing practices in devs. In a function with 23 paths devs usually burnout and only do 9 or 10. Most never consider that making the function smaller is an option.
minus-squareprojectmoon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 days ago1 scenario tested is better than 0 tested.
This guy would fit in well at my previous job where the founder discouraged writing unit tests because “there are too many scenarios to test.”
Like, wtf…
It’s been the hardest thing for me to instill good testing practices in devs. In a function with 23 paths devs usually burnout and only do 9 or 10. Most never consider that making the function smaller is an option.
1 scenario tested is better than 0 tested.
Stroke of genius 🤣🤣🤣