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Daniel Lemire on Ephemeral Testing
Original: Ephemeral Testing
Computer science researcher Daniel Lemire has published a blog post on the idea of ephemeral testing — tests written for short-term use rather than maintained long-term. The piece argues developers often spend effort maintaining tests for code that will soon be rewritten, and that some tests can be treated as disposable. Readers on a technology forum are discussing and upvoting the argument, with debate likely over how much test code deserves long-term upkeep.
Why now: Developers constantly wrestle with how much effort to invest in test maintenance, making an argument for disposable tests provocative.
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- Ephemeral Testing · ibobev · 56
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