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A comment on Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013). Parent comment

Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by d_theorist on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:14AM (#13130756)
I remember once my code worked on the first try. I found it difficult to believe.
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Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by cheez on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:28AM (#13130848)
One time in uni, I had no access to a computer and wrote an entire b-tree implementation on paper for a course, typed it in and it worked.

Based on a true story

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Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by eveningcoffee on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:38PM (#13135712)
In principle TDD is the opposite of this.

Out of curiosity, did you use any debugging on paper for your code?

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Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by cheez on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:45PM (#13135756)
I can't recall, honestly
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Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by jimmaswell on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:31AM (#13130869)
I've found it to happen very often the past few years
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