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Re:Spark joy by running fewer tests by tick_tock_tick on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:32PM (#23493480)
The biggest thing is anything time based the effort to mock out of fake time is normally way larger than just dealing with a test that flakes from time to time.

That being said I make a concentrated effort to take in time rather then randomly calling now() in the middle of my code but most code bases aren't green fields.

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Re:Spark joy by running fewer tests by TallGuyShort on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:59PM (#23493729)
It is my personal opinion that in that first statement you are severely underestimating the time and product quality that is eventually lost because of a flaky test that isn't dealt with quickly.
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