software quality 5
- Collaboration between software developers is the key to great software.
- The main purpose of writing tests is to build confidence in the code, not to find bugs.
Marc Littlemore
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
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design 2
- The goal of testing should be tests that are easy to understand and maintain, not high coverage of everything.
- Code that is difficult to test is a sign of other design problems.
simplicity 2
- Smaller, more atomic pull requests make code review easier.
- The goal of testing should be tests that are easy to understand and maintain, not high coverage of everything.
social media 2
- Facebook's policy changes have led it to allow more misinformation and hate speech.
- Twitter/X has gotten worse since Elon Musk took over the platform.