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by 8note 110 days ago
> At no point does anyone stop and ask whether the generated code implements the desired functional behaviour for the system ("business logic").

its fun having LLMs because it makes it quite clear that a lot of testing has been cargo-culting. did people ever check often that the tests check for anything meaningful?

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15years ago, I had tester writing "UI tests" / "User tests" that matched what the software was cranking out. At that time I just joined to continue at the client side so I didn't really worked on anything yet.

I had a fun discussion when the client tried to change values... Why is it still 0? Didn't you test?

And that was at that time I had to dive into the code base and cry.

Test automation is kind of like a religion. It is comforting to believe that the solution to code is more code.
Property testing could've helped