Tests are good vibes we like test. I feel safe warm embrace when test. Test brought dog back to life.
Don’t say that out loudly or we all know what you’ll be working on for the foreseeable future.
I don’t understand why people dislike tests. They don’t take that long and you need to check things anyway.
Well, I say that, and then I think of my coworkers that don’t write tests and also push up code with syntax errors. Code that they clearly never even ran themselves.
My problem is my coworkers always misinterpret my reasons for writing tests. they think i must want to make an artisimal work of art, or they think I’m challenging them in some way. in the PR they don’t take the scope of the project into account and start pitching to my boss edge cases i didn’t test for. is it an organizational problem, sure. but tests are not written into a proposal and are billed as engineering hours. get it working and ship it it’s our business model, making tests a niceity.
/rant
or they think I’m challenging them in some way
Admittedly, there is a bit of
Them: “It works”
Me: “I don’t believe you. Prove it”
that people might not like. But usually the people who take the most offense are the worst coders.
Absolutely on board. It is one of the more tedious jobs to get right though.
I used to use ASCII art to mark sections in my statistical syntax. It’s not much but it made me happy when I got to show that to my advisor in grad school.