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Re:Ask HN: Would you join a startup that doesn't test? Are tests imped... on Sunday November 24, 2013 @06:05PM (#6791590)

unless you use a dynamic language :P

Re:Ask HN: Would you join a startup that doesn't test? Are tests imped... on Sunday November 24, 2013 @06:02PM (#6791582)

That makes sense. I've found automated testing to be incredibly useful and just necessary to be able to really rework code well. Not using automated testing and having a really fast release cycle seems like a recipe for a lot of pain (and they said that testing was taking them forever).

I asked them about their testing - turns out they were looking to have someone help them develop a way to test their software (so at least they want to do it).

I wish I'd asked them the two questions you listed at the end, they are much better questions than a bland "do you test?". They did break the build some times.

Re:Ask HN: Would you join a startup that doesn't test? Are tests imped... on Friday November 22, 2013 @06:22PM (#6784413)

as the actual OP, I can definitely say I wasn't talking about TDD. I mean integration tests like "Hey, we aren't double charging this person" or tests to make sure that bugs stay fixed. It doesn't matter to me if you write tests before or after the fact, you just should be testing so you can have some sort of sense of correctness.

Re:Ask HN: Would you join a startup that doesn't test? Are tests imped... on Friday November 22, 2013 @03:40AM (#6779803)

Yeah, it's not about TDD, it's about having your testing be a non-automated checklist (without unit tests where useful)

Ask HN: Would you join a startup that doesn't test? Are tests impediments?

Posted by dootdoot on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Met this great team at a startup running a (quite successful) webapp on a cloud hosting provider. They don't test their code at all (and instead run through tests manually before they push to production).They say it's because they wanted to put something out there rather than focus on testing. Is that legit?I like them a lot, but it makes me nervous that they don't have any test framework in...

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Re: on Saturday November 16, 2013 @10:19PM (#6747404)

There's an existing project for GitHub called Hub. Why did you pick a name that overlaps with it?? https://github.com/github/hub