Tell us about a time when your tests saved you
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Tell us about a time when your tests saved you

Publish Date: Nov 19 '19
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… or tell us about a time when your tests destroyed you.

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  • Glenn Stovall
    Glenn StovallNov 19, 2019

    When I update a package from 6.1.1 -> 6.2.1 and think, "that couldn't . have broken anything, right?"

  • Avalander
    AvalanderNov 20, 2019

    We were using a statistics library developed by another team in the company. Since that other team couldn't be bothered to write tests, we had an extensive integration test suite on that library (that's about all the tests we had, our project manager and architect thought we shouldn't bother to test our own code, but that is a story for another time). Every time they released an update on that library, we would discover half a dozen breaking changes thanks to our integration tests.

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