Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java
by theptip on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:26PM
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> Shouldn't be too hard to write test cases for tax code.
I would disagree here -- like timezones, tax software has the disadvantage of being both extremely boring, and very fiddly (thus requiring close attention). This combination makes it very hard to maintain the concentration that's required to write exhaustive tests.
I would disagree here -- like timezones, tax software has the disadvantage of being both extremely boring, and very fiddly (thus requiring close attention). This combination makes it very hard to maintain the concentration that's required to write exhaustive tests.