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by Jason Sankey.
Original Post: Unit Tests and Gambling
Feed Title: a little madness
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Feed Description: A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis
Today I ran across this post which quotes a testing-related analogy:
Checking code into source-control without unit-tests is like betting on a poker hand without looking at the cards. — Anon.
A nice theme, which brought to mind another gambling analogy:
Developing software without unit tests is like playing the pokies1.
How so? In a few ways:
Poker machines [...]
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