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by imanaccount247 4249 days ago
>Objectively, you need to write more tests

That is precisely the opposite of objective. Personal thoughts, feelings and opinions are subjective by definition. 2+2=4 is objective. "You need to put more cheese on that pizza" is subjective.
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kstrauser 4249 days ago
"We don't have enough test coverage to ensure that we're generating RFC-compliant output" is objective. That's not a personal though, feeling, or opinion. If you wish, you may generalize that to "we don't have enough tests to catch an error that made it into the shipped product".
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imanaccount247 4249 days ago
That would only be objective if it were possible to have enough test coverage to ensure that. But that is not possible. So it is purely a subjective question of how much test coverage person A thinks is "good enough".
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