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chc on June 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need st...

If you have the two algorithms mixed up, unit tests aren't going to save you either. Nothing will ever save you from intending to do the wrong thing.

dllthomas on June 20, 2012 [–]

If you actually use the result of the function somewhere, some tests of that component should give wrong answers.

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