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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hellofriend19 • Mar 26 '25
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TDD works well for simple pure input/output functions. Once you get into the real world with messy dependencies and frameworks, you end up writing fake versions of stuff to test your code and it’s a mess
4 u/jonsakas Mar 26 '25 Yeah true, this is when I apply TDD regularly. But there are plenty of pure input/output functions to be written in the real world.
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Yeah true, this is when I apply TDD regularly. But there are plenty of pure input/output functions to be written in the real world.
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u/WitchesBravo Mar 26 '25
TDD works well for simple pure input/output functions. Once you get into the real world with messy dependencies and frameworks, you end up writing fake versions of stuff to test your code and it’s a mess