Do You REALLY Need To Write Tests? - Principal Software Engineering Manager AMA
October 1, 2024
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Looks like you didn't write tests for that code.
... But do you need to? Do you reallllly need to have test coverage?
We are constantly bombarded with many best practices in software engineering, and testing is one of them.
I'm guilty of doing the bombarding too! But are there situations where we... just don't need to test?
Let's talk about it.
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