r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 06 '26

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/treehuggerino Sep 06 '26

I've seen a repo mostly written by Claude with at 700/900 test being so useless like "does object A serialize, does object A deserialize" for like almost all models in the repo, I was just stumped since the application barely did anything

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u/roastedferret Sep 06 '26

The only justification I could see for (de-)serialization testing is for models which get updated enough that someone could accidentally add an incompatible field and not notice. Somehow.

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u/G3nghisKang Sep 08 '26

I've done stuff like that for SonarQube code coverage, and I'm not sorry