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Everything is broken

Dan Luu · 18 Nov 2014 · danluu.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    A working programmer routinely works around hundreds of bugs a week in ordinary software, and the industry has normalised it.

    Their wordsIf I had to guess, I'd say I probably work around hundreds of bugs in an average week, and thousands in a bad week.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    How much to test is an economic calculation a team should actually run, not a matter of principle.

    Their wordsThe point isn't that you should definitely write more tests, it's that you should definitely do the math to see if you should write more tests.
    Interesting