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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by lawn on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:04AM (#33394598)
If you churn out new code and features, your test suite will be of very little help if any.

If you're also the one responsible for writing tests, you can easily churn out even more unmaintainable crap.

In my experience it's not enough to just have them do TDD, because writing a good test suite is hard.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by turtleyacht on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:24PM (#33396482)
Mutation testing can help evaluate the quality of a test suite. The application code is automatically tweaked and tests run. If a mutant is not "killed," then additional tests may be needed.
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