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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by dasmoth on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:51AM (#12741637)
"Tests can make refactoring much easier" is a statement I could easily buy into.

"If your code doesn't have tests then you can't refactor" is pure dogma and trivial to falsify (go on, refactor some untested code now!). More likely to introduce bugs? Perhaps. But relying on that absolutist statement about refactoring will alienate me every time.

Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by snovv_crash on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:09AM (#12741978)
Let me clarify: you can't refactor without a very awake QA team, because you have no idea what your changes may have broken.
Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by kalms on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:22AM (#12742317)
And a passing test is a guarantee for a working feature across an entire platform. Every. Time.