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Hard lessons2017-05-09 · Archive

The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)

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“Over the past 15 years, unit testing has failed to produce anything positive, and test driven development has been an absolute disaster.”

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The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)

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