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fuck the tests (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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"

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why I like strong type systems with exhaustivity checks

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

'spose that's true enough