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0 pointsscrollaway11y ago0 comments

Nowhere near as many, but I had to deal with this very recently and this little WSJ gem showed up:

https://github.com/ewfelten/Tracking-Report-Card/blob/master...

I'll let the code speak for itself.

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nl11y ago· 2 in thread

That looks like autogenerated code. That's a different beast altogether.

carussell11y ago

It is. Mozmill is a testing framework. What we're looking at there is a file containing automated tests (which I think should be fairly obvious to someone looking at that file...)

scrollawayOP11y ago

I'm well aware of what it is. Like I said, I had to deal with it recently - I didn't just pull it out of thin air.

What you're looking at is a horror beyond comprehension. There's much better, more maintainable ways to write automated tests.

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Cthulhu_11y ago

That's not bad at all - it's a lot, it's not DRY and it could be reduced to about 25 lines of code (or 25 + the number of URLs to check), but it's legible, clear, and easy to understand.

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