blog-2024-01-05-thoughts_on_testing

> The thing is that tests are code, and all code is technical debt, but unlike normal code tests can grow without bounds, and they don't always get seen as a something with a cost because they don't get shipped to production.

-- https://www.brandons.me/blog/thoughts-on-testing

i use tests sparingly. for complicated, algorithmic tasks i use test driven design, but otherwise, i usually stopped striving for a high coverage. most tests i see are badly written tests that are a liability rather than providing value.