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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by austenallred on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:23AM (#18451030)
The notion of tests that take 20 hours blows my mind.

The notions of tests written in C that take 20 hours I can't even fathom.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by rubber_duck on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:26PM (#18451649)
I'm going to guess a lot of these are integration tests, not unit tests (simply going off execution time).

At that point, for DB testing, I doubt it matters what language test are written in, it's going to be mostly about setting up and tearing down the environment over and over.

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