Re:Things nobody told me about being a software engineer
by zeroname on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:29PM
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> Am I (and colleagues) a magic snowflake, or are tests a massive waste of time, or is it somewhere in the middle?
Tests are definitely a massive waste of time if you never need them. Write and forget code exists and can certainly run happily for years. On the other hand, frequently changing something in a large existing codebase, especially without static typing, is almost certainly going to end up more expensive without automated tests.
Tests are definitely a massive waste of time if you never need them. Write and forget code exists and can certainly run happily for years. On the other hand, frequently changing something in a large existing codebase, especially without static typing, is almost certainly going to end up more expensive without automated tests.