• LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    My biggest issue with this kind of “TDD” is, you pay two people to write the same code twice. Test-driven can work if done correctly, but this just stupid.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      I had a coworker who was obsessed with writing unit tests. He was the lead developer on a project which was supposed to take three months and at one point had gone past the two year mark without producing working code. At one point during a meeting with the increasingly (and legitimately) unhappy client, he blurted out “but we’ve written six times as much test code as actual code!” He was not exaggerating either. Believe it or not, this made the client even less happy.