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michaelmcmillan | 3 years ago

That's not nearly enough.

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asim|3 years ago

Probably not but users tell me when something isn't working. I spent my entire career in this sort of development model where 80% was good enough, put it into production and then moved on. When something breaks, fix it, when something is really complex test it, when the logic is critical mock it.

robertlagrant|3 years ago

This is likely to be a core issue for most people. In reality it isn't "if it breaks, fix it", it's "if we notice it breaks, and we can remember what it should do, we can probably fix it". Tests allow you to spot when you break things, and also encode what they should do.

throw827474737|3 years ago

That must have been then completely early startups, web-focused? Even there cannot imagine how this could be.. just wow.