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by Franco Martinig.
Original Post: Quote of the Month April 2015
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Code that doesn’t have tests rots. It rots because we don’t feel confident to touch it, we’re afraid to break the “working” parts. Code rotting means that it doesn’t improve, staying the way we first wrote it. I’ll be the first to admit that whenever I write code, it comes in its most ugly form. It may not look ugly immediately after I wrote it, but if I wait a couple of days (or a couple of hours), I know I will find many ways to improve it. Without tests ...