Re: [extremeprogramming] What has changed for you over the past 20 years?

Well, there are cases when writing tests for configurations files still may make sense. An example is typos. I’ve seen my share of bugs where a parameter name or a value were misspelled. Adding a test that reads the config and confirms that parameter is present allows CI to verify that the fix is there and also builds a regression suite that ensures that this doesn’t happen again.


> On Dec 4, 2019, at 2:06 PM, Todd Sedano <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I prefer not writing unit tests for configuration. If configuration is wrong, then just fix it. I prefer writing unit tests for my control flow. This means that my code will never have 100% unit test coverage. 
> 
> As a concrete example, consider an object has a static/fixed hash. (Eg CA => California) or (12 => purchase order)...it’s either right or wrong, no need to write lots of low value tests
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:51 PM John Maxwell <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On 12/04/2019 04:47:58 PM, Mike Bowler wrote:
> > > Yep. TDD is a holly grail. Just having a policy not to check in any
> > code without 100% unit test coverage does wonders to quality.
> > 
> > I can’t tell if you meant that as sarcasm. I’ve seen that policy put
> > in place and the “quality” that results. I expect many of us here have
> > seen that disaster.
> > 
> I haven't. What's the failure mechanism?
> 
> --
> John Maxwell  KB3VLL  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> "Personally I'm fond of using Dedekind cuts for representing the Reals,
>  but it gets cumbersome to use when balancing one's checkbook."
>         -Charles Haynes
> 
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