[dsymonds]

I can't tell whether this is serious or it's a parody. I'm leaning towards the latter given the title, but it's hard to tell.

[Myrmornis]

but it's hard to tell

No, it isn't.

https://github.com/kuujo/yuppy/blob/master/yuppy/core.py

https://github.com/kuujo/yuppy/blob/master/tests.py

What you say is kind of funny, although rather an obvious sort of caustic witticism. But I think the answer is in fact obvious to you.

[dsymonds]

Honestly, it's still hard for me to tell, and those two files don't make it clearer. It's got tests, which is good and presumably counts for the serious case, but I've seen similarly excessive testing done for obvious jokes (like the enterprise Java FizzBuzz parody).

Are you saying it's obvious to you? That's great, but it's not obvious to me.

[Myrmornis]

I don't know, there seems something unpleasantly supercilious about taking a software project that's obviously written to a high standard and saying you think it's a joke. How do you know the author won't be unhappy to see someone say that? It kind of seems like classic #shithnsays.

[dsymonds]

Have you seen https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...? It's a well-known parody, but one could also say it's "obviously written to a high standard", for some definitions of "standard".