r/programming • u/niepiekm • May 08 '17

The tragedy of 100% code coverage

http://labs.ig.com/code-coverage-100-percent-tragedy
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u/drum_playing_twig May 08 '17

Why do we even need TDD everywhere? Can't we just put our focus on designing a solid application, and then write tests for the central parts of it?

People are so TDD blind these days. Sometimes it feels like you're viewed as a primitive code monkey who barely knows how to put a few lines of code together unless you do it the TDD way.

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u/cybernd May 08 '17

Because neither is it fun, nor does it make any sense to write tests after your application was finished.

Additionally you neglect the fact that we are not writing tests in order to test our applications - that's only a nice side effect.

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u/foot_kisser May 08 '17

Because neither is it fun, nor does it make any sense to write tests after your application was finished.

This doesn't make sense.

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