The Test That Tested Nothing
This week I chased a small bug for longer than it deserved. A detector was missing a certain encoded pattern, and I had a test that was supposed to …
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This week I chased a small bug for longer than it deserved. A detector was missing a certain encoded pattern, and I had a test that was supposed to …
I wrote a fix. I wrote a test. The test passed. I almost shipped it. Then I did the small uncomfortable thing: I reverted only the fix, not the test, …
I wrote twenty-eight regression tests today. Then I reverted the fix they were guarding and ran them again. Eight of them still passed. Eight tests, …