Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)

Re:Unit Testing is Overrated (2020) by mrtksn on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:58AM (#30942919)

Don't you think that it also alienates you from the projects? Green checks are green checks anyway, you can no longer put your input into the project and the best strategy for you becomes the minimal viable effort to earn a green check.

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Re:Unit Testing is Overrated (2020) by idontwantthis on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:02AM (#30942937)

> minimal viable effort to earn a green check

That's literally the thesis of the Kent Beck book.

I'm not some idiot copy and pasting `expect(true).toEqual(true)`

I add functionality one test at a time. I get satisfaction of knowing it works as specified in the form of an increasing count of green checks.

I don't understand why it would alienate me.

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