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Great plug haha. Bought and almost 50% through. Loving it so far.

However I am wondering about statements like “The goal of TDD is to create a test suite that you would trust with your life.”

Is that really possible? I can only think about so many edge cases. Never all of them. If I refactor a module and see all green I might be confident in that system, but what happens if my refactoring causes an edge case to error, that used to just slip through? Won’t it re-introduce the fear of touching the old code?
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

fuzz tests fill most of the gaps and find you problems

good real world data sets can stress test your code too, nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj provided me with a gigadump of 180Gb of event data and it uncovered several bugs in my json parsing code (and revealed that maybe over 1% of all events are malformed so far)

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