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by falcor84 457 days ago
However high the stakes are, a bug in test code is not as much of an issue as a bug in the production code.
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layer8 457 days ago
It is as much of an issue if it prevents a bug in production code from being detected before it occurs in production. Which is the very purpose of unit tests.
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optimalsolver 456 days ago
What? Bugs in the test code are what lead to bugs in production code.
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falcor84 456 days ago
That is exactly it. A bug in test code may or may not lead to a bug in production code, while a bug in production code IS a bug in production code
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