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Re:Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programmin... by a_imho on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:46AM (#19299517)
There was a comment on HN which I keep thinking about. What is the value of expensive testing when you are promptly alerted of critical problems and can deploy in under a minute? Obviously not applicable for every scenario, but at this point I think for most non critical systems a good rollback/plan B is at least as important as testing.
Re:Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programmin... by geezerjay on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:09AM (#19317434)
> What is the value of expensive testing when you are promptly alerted of critical problems and can deploy in under a minute?

Because your users should not be your testers and you must catch bugs before deploying them in production.

You may be able to deploy in 3 minutes but it takes way more to debug and fix your bugs.

Testing helps the project to catch bugs prior to deploying them and also provides the infrastructure to avoid regressions.