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Discussion on: What are the alternatives to unit tests?

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Jon Randy 🎖️

I've been a developer for over 20 years and have never once written tests in a real project

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K

Tell me your secret!

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Jon Randy 🎖️

No secret. I just don't use automated tests

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K • Edited

What language are you programming in?

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Jon Randy 🎖️

In a professional capacity, I've worked with Visual Basic (back in the day for some Desktop apps), PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby

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K

Nice.
How do you assure code quality?

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Jon Randy 🎖️

If by code quality, you mean functioning code... manual testing. It's always worked for me