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Discussion on: What's one piece of advice every dev should ignore? 🚩🚩🚩

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Sagar Barapatre

I according to me this is the advice I often hear that I definitely ignore:

If your change is small enough there's no need to test.

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Danial Ahmed

Yes same lol! for example if I'm making scripts in python and I change to add a print statement with colour I always run the program to make sure it works as I want it to.

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Ben Halpern

"Smallness" is definitely not the proper litmus test.

And if you don't want that small change to break later, a regression test couldn't possibly hurt, right?

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Sagar Barapatre

Yeah, absolutely!!