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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by 9question1 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:48AM (#18459591)
Your point about essential complexity is absolutely correct, but your faux mathematical analysis is totally not a legit way to analyze the complexity of something or determine test coverage. I feel like as programmers we should be comfortable making sensible statements without making up shady pseudo-math to sound convincing.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by majewsky on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:46AM (#18460130)
It's abundantly clear that I'm not making a precise computation here. My argument is that tests don't scale linearly with the number of features because interactions between features need to be tested as well.
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