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		chrisandchris on June 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parse, Don't Validate (2019) Yeah I‘m not sure that‘s how software engineering should work. Tests should prove a desired behaviour. Sometimes it‘s not possible to fully run code until late in some staging, just because there are a lot of dependencies and conplexity. That‘s what tests are for (on various lebels of abstraction).

cortesoft on June 26, 2021 [–]

I think it depends on the task. Some code we write is so simple and only used a few times that you don’t need tests.

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