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by sethammons 817 days ago
Our paying customers don't appreciate bugs. A layer of testing _is_ fail fast/early because it prevents an issue before it gets to the customer.

One gig I had: several times per week the site would go down and nobody could log in. People were just pushing code and yolo'ing into prod. Paying customers were churning. The solution? A single cypress test on a canary node that logged in and edited one setting. 2 or 3 minutes of barrier to production and now the site doesn't go down periodically with deploys.
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tdudhhu 817 days ago
I am not saying you should not test. To me it seems obvious that you test what you create. But it is impossible to test everything.

When you fail fast you are quicker to notice it yourself. And when it was deployed without you nothing the bug it will still surface very early because it breaks your app.

Broken gets fixed, shitty lasts forever.

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sethammons 816 days ago
> Broken gets fixed, shitty lasts forever.

Love it. More succinct than "devs need to feel the pain to fix it."

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