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Re:Spark joy by running fewer tests by l0b0 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:50PM (#23495189)
The worst thing is you end up normalizing failure - nobody even bothers checking whether it's a "real" failure until it's failed a few times in a row. At that point you might have introduced other test failures which nobody noticed, or someone might have built on top of the broken code, making a fix harder, and so on and so on.
Re:Spark joy by running fewer tests by hinkley on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:51PM (#23503065)
Indeed. This pattern though is often the point at which an intervention is possible. Almost like it has to happen repeatedly before you can get consensus to stop it.