Comment by 9dev

Comment by 9dev 2 days ago

7 replies

If I write a bunch of tests for new code, and all of them pass on the first attempt, I'm immediately suspicious of a far more egregious bug hiding somewhere…

throwanem 2 days ago

Where feasible, I like to start a suite with a unit test that validates the unit's intended side effects actually occur, as visible in their mocks being exercised.

  • pinoy420 2 days ago

    I laughed. Thank you for that

    • throwanem a day ago

      Sure. For Patreon subscribers at the $5/month tier and up, I also have a course on making integration ("e2e", "functional") tests more maintainable by eliminating side effects.

michaelcampbell a day ago

"never trust a test you've never seen fail." has kept me honest on more than one occasion.

noisy_boy 2 days ago

// Todo: remove

return true;

  • kps 2 days ago

    /bin/true used to be an empty file. On my desktop here, it's 35K (not counting shared libraries), which is an asolute increase of 35K and a relative increase of ∞%.

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