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fuck the tests (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tests are just booby traps for the other engineers so they don't break your code by mistake.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Its funny cause its true. I often design tests to be "if a case/enum value is added this test will explode and tell them to add code here"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is why I like strong type systems with exhaustivity checks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Saaaaame. But sometimes even strongly typed stuff wont break on compilation time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

'spose that's true enough