[troupo]

> pretending that we all don't really understand what Kent Beck et. al. were talking about.

Here's what Kent Beck has to say about testing: https://stackoverflow.com/a/153565

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I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence

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[kragen]

good thinking but irrelevant to the question at hand