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Re:Tips for beginning systems and software engineers by mbrock on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:14AM (#11729893)
You are completely allowed to throw out your tests if you are doing this kind of exploratory programming.

Then, tests are simply your hypotheses.

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Re:Tips for beginning systems and software engineers by maxxxxx on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:57AM (#11730706)
Yes, that's one thing people often forget. It's OK to delete tests that are obsolete.
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