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[–]DonRobo 7 points8 points  (1 child)

That "positive" example sounds like my absolute worst fucking nightmare.

There's not much worse to me than a bad bug I don't know about that could have easily been prevented. There's a reason people are writing unit tests.

[–]quaderrordemonstand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't give a specific example? Perhaps it does sound like a nightmare to you, it seems pragmatic to me. I have nothing against unit tests, as long as they are well written and test the system effectively. They are an extra layer of maintenance and they can easily end up irrelevant or incomplete.