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Testing Isn't Everything (2019) (opens in new tab)

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Some of the most difficult code I’ve worked with is code that is “easily testable”. Code that abstracts everything to the point where you have no idea what’s going on, just so that it can add a “unit test” to what would otherwise be a very straightforward function. DHH called this Test-induced design damage.

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