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Unit testing's only job should be to flag when something unexpected happens.

Drawn from what Yihui Xie said

Subjectsdeveloper toolssoftware quality
What this subject means

software quality Whether a program is any good and how anyone would know: tests, review, debt, and what a suite cannot cover.

What Yihui Xie actually said

  1. Yihui Xie Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages…
    I still believe that unit testing should be nothing more than "tell me if something unexpected happened."

    Where this was said

    ↗Converting testthat Tests to testityihui.org

    15 May 2026

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