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Unit Tests (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 6 months ago

It's strangely satisfying when the "this will probably never happen" test case finds a problem during development.

I had tests for deleting that were like

  • create item a
  • create item b
  • delete item a via the code under test
  • assert item a is gone
  • assert item b is still there

I thought maybe the whole bit with item b was excessive, but sure enough one day I accidentally fucked something up and deleted all the items, and the test pointed it out before the bad code left my local machine.