Working Code

·S1 E251

251: Ben vs. Tests

March 12
1h 3m

Episode Description

Testing sounds simple until you actually try it. Private methods that can't be reached without hacks. Dependency injection that doubles your architecture's complexity before a single assertion runs. Production code that slowly warps around your test suite instead of the other way around. Ben has spent his entire career shipping code without tests, and this week he decided to change that. The crew walks him through every trap he steps on, and a few they've been stuck in themselves.

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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