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Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) by chrisandchris on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:21PM (#27645480)
Yeah I‘m not sure that‘s how software engineering should work.

Tests should prove a desired behaviour. Sometimes it‘s not possible to fully run code until late in some staging, just because there are a lot of dependencies and conplexity. That‘s what tests are for (on various lebels of abstraction).

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Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) by cortesoft on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:43PM (#27645651)
I think it depends on the task. Some code we write is so simple and only used a few times that you don’t need tests.
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