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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by jrumbut on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:40PM (#34602611)
The difference between tests and comments is that comments become stale silently.
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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by hbrn on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:52AM (#34613327)
Only under assumption that you are writing perfect tests.

But if you are capable of writing perfect tests, why don't you write perfect software in the first place?

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