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Discussion on: Why do great developers love writing tests?

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Rob Waller

A nice post explaining your journey which I imagine will be very useful for junior developers to read.

One minor edit to one of your quotes would be:

Great developers love writing tests because they care about the code, and they know that (well-written) tests are the only reliable way they can be more confident that it works.

Even with tests you should be suspicious of your code :)

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anabella

As one of my great co-workers would say "you are correct".

You can never "rest assured" of anything, really. It sounds like blind faith. There's always many implications in every feature or change, and even if you think you've covered everything, you can never be 100% sure.

Thanks for the feedback :D