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[–] Alexc@lemmings.world 56 points 2 years ago (10 children)

This is why you write the test before the code. You write the test to make sure something fails, then you write the code to make it pass. Then you repeat this until all your behaviors are captured in code. It’s called TDD

But, full marks for writing tests in the first place

[–] oce@jlai.lu 73 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That supposes to have a clear idea of what you're going to code. Otherwise, it's a lot of time wasted to constantly rewrite both the code and tests as you better understand how you're going to solve the task while trying. I guess it works for very narrowed tasks rather than opened problems.

[–] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

This is the reason I dislike TDD.

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