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by kaba0 1572 days ago
Testing is a thing.
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Ok, but now your “time boxed” half day refactor is two man weeks of testing, bug fixes, back and forth, etc
If you planned your refactor AND testing and bugfixes to take half a day, and it is going to go way over, you (a) tell your boss your estimate was off and the refactoring needs to be a separate task, and (b) revert it.