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Jesse Phillips

I'm not sure sure I know the benefit. It sounds like these are questions to ask to stop blaming not necessarily understand.

The beginning of you post made me think of things I look for.

  • entry point
  • example usage
  • actually live functionality

The entry point is harder for libraries and frameworks. But the can provide the guidance on what happens.

Examples always provide clarity in what to expect.

An actual working example code is massive helpful and can get you the ability to learn with a debugger.

This morning I was looking through these tests which which look to follow the BDD test descriptions, I realized it was not helpful to understand the code.