On 7 March 2014 15:13, Chris McMahon <[email protected]> wrote:

> This process is something that I think would be of great interest to a
> variety of teams:
> * When to throw away old tests
> * When to create new tests (TDD style, before writing the code that
> satisfies the test?)
> * When to refactor existing tests
> * At what point do you make these decisions?
> I'd like to encourage you to discuss your approaches along these lines,
> because I think it would be of great interest across all the WMF dev teams.


This essay has been going around. There's a lot to it IMO.

http://www.rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdf

tl;dr "unit test" is another word for "assert". Now, *acceptance* tests ...


- d.

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