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Re:Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:37PM (#30368528)
My favourite is the test suite where each test relies on data from every other test, so running a test in isolation fails, and adding a new test is almost impossible without breaking a bunch of other tests.
Re:Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays by salawat on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:54AM (#30373658)
Ugh. Cross test dependency.

Mine is lack of future-proofing. Using dates stuck at one point in time. Or worse, the test suite that fails because of local clock skew.