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Re:Is TDD Dead? (2014) by bluGill on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:51AM (#24283578)
I once fixed a bug like that, then went wait a minute. Sure enough source control revealed I'd made exactly the same fix 2 years ago, and 2 years before that someone else had done exactly the same. In the odd years someone else undid that fix to fix a different bug that seemed unrelated. Once I figured out what the other problem was I was able to find the more complex fix for both situations.

I wished I had heard of automated tests then

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Re:Is TDD Dead? (2014) by magicalhippo on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:21PM (#24285510)
Yeah I always check source control (blame/annotate), even if I wrote the code myself, just to be sure I'm not missing some context.

Automated tests is pretty great, but a lot of the stuff we do is difficult to test, mostly due to a lot of legacy code that's not well confined. As we work on a piece of code we try to clean that part up, but it takes time.

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Re:Is TDD Dead? (2014) by smileypete on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:30AM (#24314391)
Maybe add a dated note as a code comment breifly describing the reason for the change.
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