Ask HN: Do you consider yourself to be a good programmer?

Re:Ask HN: Do you consider yourself to be a good programmer? by westurner on Monday June 18, 2018 @06:49AM (#17337177)

IMHO, it's so much easier to write good, comprehensive tests while writing the function (FUT: function under test) because that information is already in working memory.

It's also easier to adversarially write tests with a fresh perspective.

I shouldn't need to fuzz every parameter for every commit. Certainly for releases.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you consider yourself to be a good programmer? by zaarn on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:08AM (#17337259)

I mean, I general don't think you should write fuzzers for absolutely everything (most contained functions => doesn't touch a lot of other stuff and few parameters with a known parameter space)

The general solution is to use whatever testing methodology you are comfortable, that is very effective, very efficient and covers a lot of problem space. Of course no testing method does that so you'll have to constantly balance whatever works best (which is why I think pure TDD is overrated)

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