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Re:20.5 Years of XP and Agile by troupo on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:44PM (#39004436)
> a bunch of value out of Beck's TDD book

Meanwhile Kent Beck [1]: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence"

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/153565

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Re:20.5 Years of XP and Agile by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:52AM (#39010219)
Yeah totally. I find tests a useful design tool in what I do, but I definitely only test everything when I'm working on a complicated piece of legacy code that I don't understand.
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