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sp332 on June 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

He's talking about test code. So if those test cases are missing, but the programmer thinks the tests are thorough, then it looks like the programmer believes those things (or forgot that they weren't true).

DougBTX on June 18, 2012 [–]

A bad test might boil down to,

    assert(month(now()) == month(now() + 24.hours))

then fail from time to time.

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