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Kurt Schrader
Personal blog · kurt.karmalab.orgprogrammingstartups
Kurt Schrader's personal blog at kurt.karmalab.org covers programming and startups. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “"People writing Rails apps without tests are idiots."”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is a 2008 article about building a Rails app without tests, which an HN commenter cites in a discussion of Ruby developers' testing habits and bug detection.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- "People writing Rails apps without tests are idiots."2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-02-08
What Hacker News says?
On example of the question would be, "Do your tests ever find bugs, or do they just sit there always working." No koolaid, how about the post from this moron http://kurt.karmalab.org/articles/2008/02/07/rails-app-witho... If you look at page 470 of the latest Code Complete, it shows that unit tests have a very low defect detection rate, Cleanroom software engineering has the best record of quality, but there's no bu…
Comment linking /articles/2008/02/07/rails-app-without-tests-guaranteed-fail
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