Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets

Hillel Wayne · 5 Oct 2017 · hillelwayne.com ↗

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Robert C. Martin's advice makes code worse, because it dismisses every correctness technique that is not unit testing.

Their wordsUncle Bob gives terrible advice. Following it will make your code worse.

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Our reading
Programmer discipline is the wrong answer to software defects: the way to reduce them is to change the system so mistakes are harder to make and easier to catch.

Their wordsRather, the best way to reduce the volume and severity of mistakes is to adjust the system itself.

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Unit tests alone give little confidence in a program, because the mistakes people actually make are not the conveniently unit-testable ones.

Their wordsBut unit tests don't give you much confidence in your code.

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