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by mx_03 447 days ago
> The problem was that this intern was bad, so we had him write unit tests.

Please tell me you assigned this person a "increase code coverage" task and not "I wrote a new feature, write the unit tests for it" task

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Yes, it was an "increase code coverage" task. The same director wanted 100% code coverage so I had the intern write tests for existing code that didn't have many tests.