Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013)

Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by jsight on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:41AM (#13131572)

I have seen codebases where the developers diligently insured that every getter and setter method had a test case. They had great test coverage, but not particularly reliable outputs.

OTOH, projects with excellent end-to-end tests tend to have lower coverage but better regression management.

I think this is the point of the article?

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Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by eveningcoffee on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:49PM (#13135774)

I think that this is one of the points.

I think that full test coverage is nor sufficient or necessary for the working software. What matters is the sufficient covering of the edge cases.

I think that an additional point to keep in mind is that most probably Kent Beck talked mostly from the point of statically typed languages.

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