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0 pointsswanson13y ago0 comments

It all comes down to: does the benefit out way the costs?

A well-maintained suite of automated tests provide an enormous benefit. A brittle set of Selenium scripts costs a project more than paying a Tester to manually run scenarios.

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wulczer13y ago

Yeah, I agree, it's a question of cost vs benefit.

A bunch of tests that check trivial cases is not helpful at all, a well-maintained suite of tests is very useful.

What I mean is that a bunch of documentation that only states the obvious is not helpful at all. A set of well-maintained (!) code comments can make navigating unfamiliar code much, much easier.

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