alt Hacker NewsI believe this can work if done on top of traditional testing. I would feel very uneasy to replace deterministic (ok, not always but mostly) test suites with something that is not deterministic at all
I believe this can work if done on top of traditional testing. I would feel very uneasy to replace deterministic (ok, not always but mostly) test suites with something that is not deterministic at all
I think this is just TDD or unit test dogma and I’m personally not a fan.
Unit tests and deterministic tests are hard to get right and need to be done at the correct boundary.
I have seen many people dogmatically pushing unit tests religiously but this often leads to very hard to maintain tests that mostly exist just to change along with the main code itself.
A good way to understand if your unit tests are good: are you changing them along with changing your actual code? Then it’s a bad test. I think the argument for “it’s just documentation” is weak.