On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Chris Cannam wrote:

> Well, you could say anyone who ever wrote any of the code is part of
> the problem by now! I know I am.

Even I am, really.  There's stuff I wrote from scratch so long ago, I don't 
quite remember how it works either.  It's worse though when it's something I 
neither wrote nor ever really used, and can't even understand exactly what it 
was for in the first place.
 
> Well, as you know, the difficulty with automated unit testing is the
> sheer effort involved in writing tests (after the fact) that cover
> more than a tiny percentage of possible cases.

I think even worse than that is keeping the tests working over time.  We had 
some tests, but they didn't survive the port.  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  
I think that's Latin for "who will test the unit tests?"
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre

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