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   Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 10:27:48 JST Fish of Rage
   tests are taking 100x longer than writing the god damn program
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 10:28:14 JST Fish of Rage

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     about ready to say fuck it
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     ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 10:50:43 JST ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage @sun
     
     When I was taught to do TDD originally my mentor would always stress to write the failing tests first (ie. ensure it fails gracefully, produces proper exceptions, etc). Unless the interface is overloaded it generally only needs a single passing test case, though maybe with a variety of (possibly random) data. That said, I also learned TDD in Perl which is weakly typed (and therefore requires a bit more care), but also has very good built-in test frameworks.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 10:50:44 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     • ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡
     @toiletpaper @sun I'll note that the wrong "things" are/can be a subset of generally known issues that can be more or less made into generic testing tho (and still you can't trust them at 100%). But otherwise you're correct.
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     ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 10:50:45 JST ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡

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     @sun
     
     That's basically always true, because you're supposed to write the tests to cover all the wrong things that will fail before you deal with the limited subset of right things that don't. Gods forbid you decide to change the interface...