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Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me by pydry on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:36AM (#26723354)
That is not what the parent said. They advocated specifically for developers not writing test cases. I do not.
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Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me by croon on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:19AM (#26723732)
They argued that separate people should look at a problem so as not to make the same mistake twice:

> The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it

You said that issue could be applicable to everyone:

> The same is true of pretty much everybody - PMs and QA included. Everybody misses details and edge cases.

I pointed out that the issue can't be true of everybody, since everyone other than the original developer would generally avoid it. You then said I repeated what you said. Which is it?

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