I've seen a lot of human-written tests that wind up testing the testing framework and not the actual code.
replyyeah but it'll be one or two at a time that you find like that. LLMs will output two dozen tests for one line of real code, where you maybe needed one
replyMy workflow is:
- Write the test first, confirm it fails
- Write the minimum code to make that test pass
- Confirm it is green
replyTDD like this is a very good system for a lot of things, especially brownfield development - gotta make sure you understand the error space before you know you’ve fixed the error. :D
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