Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: quote

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Against Testing | Hacker News

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Writing tests (or deleting them, refactoring them, etc.) should always involve a cost/benefit calculation, even if it's a rough mental estimate that's not written down. In particular, that requires answering "How much effort will this test take me to write/debug?", "How much extra confidence will having this test give me?", "What level of confidence do I feel comfortable with?" and "Could I achieve higher confidence spending this effort on something else?".

Burning out

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“Burning out? I don’t have time for that, I’ve got work to do!” (allegedly Stakhanov, 1935, no reliable source)