This is why in TDD you have to make sure the test initially fails for the right reason: that the…

Alonso Del Arte

Apr 18, 2019·1 min read

This is why in TDD you have to make sure the test initially fails for the right reason: that the test was expecting the right result and instead got an obviously wrong result.

Alonso Del Arte

is a composer and photographer from Detroit, Michigan. He has been working on a Java program to display certain mathematical diagrams.

With such bugs, we find that the tests will hold the code to an incorrect result more often than a genuine bug will cause the code to fail!

Why Most Unit Testing is Waste — Tests Don’t Improve Quality: Developers Do

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