What’s kinda funny is that there have been a few where we’ve had old code tests written sort of in the form of “try this thing which this system should reject as impossible” and then you realize that after your change that in fact the business rules actually handle this corner case gracefully instead of exposing…
I’ll admit this trade off is probably helped by our clients being mostly state govt, so they’re often grateful to get anything at all functional.
One never wants to ship bugs, we’ve actually had plenty of positive client interaction along the lines of “Hey, we’re just impressed you caught it and are the process of pushing a fix before we even noticed”.
This is a nitpick' but I wish the phrase "business logic" should go away. Are we not just testing logic? It makes all software sound like a tax preparation program.
I’ll admit this trade off is probably helped by our clients being mostly state govt, so they’re often grateful to get anything at all functional.
One never wants to ship bugs, we’ve actually had plenty of positive client interaction along the lines of “Hey, we’re just impressed you caught it and are the process of pushing a fix before we even noticed”.