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drunkpotato
on June 20, 2012
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Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need st...
He qualified with "reasonably convinced", and you countered with an unreasonable example. That is the definition of attacking a strawman.
kingkilr
on June 20, 2012
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It's not unreasonable, it only seems unreasonable because of the context. I've seen several really good programmers (and overall bright people) mix the implementation of the two up.
chc
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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
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If you actually use the result of the function somewhere, some tests of that component should give wrong answers.
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