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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by fsloth on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:30AM (#16374151)
I'd say that is an architecture problem up to a point. A test does not need any framework. Simply a defined output for a defined input, and then check whether the output matches expectations.
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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by millstone on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:34AM (#16374384)
In this sort of scenario, the bugs lie in the expectations themselves. Tests that don’t account for that are dead weight.
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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by icebraining on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:15AM (#16374569)
Can you expand on that? Because I don't see how a test can account for the faulty expectations of the person writing it.
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