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Unit Tests (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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.