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sorokod on Jan 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (201...

Would a future developer care if you wrote your tests before or after the API was implemented?

xiphias2 on Jan 31, 2019 [–]

Actually yes, it's really hard to write a test without mocking for an existing (non-pure) API.

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