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Re:Unit Testing is Overrated (2020) by capableweb on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:33AM (#30942767)
Many developers seem to lack a focus on automation in the most basic sense of the word as well. While consulting, I see lots of backend developers constantly making a change, waiting for the server to reload with the new changes, switch to Postman/cURL/whatever, fire off their request and see if it's accurate. Rather than just having the request handler as a function that is under test with assertions, and have the test re-run on each change. So much time during a developers day is spent on just repetition, and they don't seem to care.
Re:Unit Testing is Overrated (2020) by brtkdotse on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:15AM (#30943006)
Plenty of time to check Reddit while waiting for the server to reload.