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Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests... by zebraflask on Friday December 09, 2016 @02:08AM (#13137228)
That's not a bad perspective, but the counterpoint that I have seen several times is that the tests can tend to take on a split quality where some will insist that nothing can be changed if a test has to be changed along with it - and then the other camp steps in and doesn't want to put in the effort for new tests, so the existing ones get removed.

Testing makes a lot of sense if you're doing data munging, but for front end or other kinds of code that are almost defined by their ability to create side effects, it's usually a waste of time. In my humble.

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