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by afarrell 2172 days ago
You jest, but I have been in a conversation where I proposed a user experience improvement and heard "but if we change the code, it will no longer be tested. Right now, users have reported bugs and we have fixed all of them."

Because users always report bugs...

If you've ever been frustrated by the package manager Conda and the UX of its command-line interface ...I'm sorry. I tried.
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rooam-dev 2172 days ago
It's a trade off. Sure, the ultimate testing is done by customers, but how fast one can push new fixes without tests? 1 reported bug could break many things.
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afarrell 2172 days ago
> but how fast one can push new fixes without tests?

Well, if you refuse to write tests and you are scared to make new changes without them... then you can't push new fixes at all. Which is apparently fine for some organizations.

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