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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One rule of thumb I've heard and follow is that every time you encounter a bug, you write a unit test that would catch it. I find that does a pretty good job of getting high code coverage, though maybe that's cause my code is naturally buggy ๐Ÿ˜….

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • Writes test to trigger the bug
  • Test is green without fixing the bug.
  • Dafuq?