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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by wing-_-nuts on Monday May 22, 2023 @10:43AM (#36032105)
>TDD being a typical example

Shots fired! I love tests, but I mostly agree with you. The whole idea of 'write your tests first' is great if everything is precisely defined. I find it odd I haven't seen more pragmatism around unit testing in the blogosphere. It's TDD or death out there.

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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by MoreQARespect on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:11AM (#36032474)
Where not everything is precisely defined but "you know the right outcome when you see it" is where I think snapshot test driven development really shines:

https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory/approach/snapshot-test-drive...

E.g. "define API call -> don't define API response -> write the code that spits out the correct response -> auto-rewrite the test according to the response and commit".

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