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Came back to learn you have job security (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ive heard of stories where people would have an imposed test coverage percentage requirement... and they would just have a single dummy method that printed "." to the console thousands of times. They then have a single test for that one method, and whenever their codebase grows to big, they add more lines to it so that the dummy method has enough lines to meet the test coverage requirement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Percentage of lines covered by tests is such a terrible metric.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All metrics are terrible when used for anything other than objective analysis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, every metric that can be applied automatically ends up becoming useless if people are incentivized to break it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Relevant xkcd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There's always one. Thanks for finding it ❤️