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		jeremyjh on April 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tests Are Overhyped Yes but there are also cases where relatively safe changes break a lot of tests, and it tells you nothing except that you now have a lot of tests to fix-up. I've held off of refactorings that I knew would scrap a bunch of tests. There is no easy answer to this stuff.

jarek on April 16, 2013 [–]

The argument would be that tests that are easily broken by relatively safe changes are bad tests.

Evbn on April 16, 2013 | [–]

Or that the tests are correctly telling you that your proposed change will break your clients.

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