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May 21 at 17:41 comment added Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen @Rockstar5645 regressions happen. Merge conflicts. Git force pushes. Etc
May 20 at 19:19 comment added Rockstar5645 @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen why would the bug "come back later"? Isn't the whole point of a unit test, to just test the unit, isolated from ANY external dependencies. If you don't touch the unit, why would the bug come back, aren't computers deterministic? Is it to assert that you didn't change the initial behavior of the function for any future developers (including yourself)? These may be silly questions, but honestly if someone asked me I wouldn't be able to answer them!
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Jun 17, 2023 at 9:17 comment added Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen The real value of a test is to demonstrate that a bug has been fixed. And does not come back later.
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