I'm a professional PHP, Python and Javascript developer from the UK. I've worked with Django, Laravel, and React, among others. I also maintain a legacy Zend 1 application.
By and large, yes. It's never the best solution and it's no substitute for proper tests. The only other scenario I can think of is one of those urgent cases we all get where functionality needs to be added at short notice and refactored later - it could be handy to make sure that the refactored version produces the same result.
By and large, yes. It's never the best solution and it's no substitute for proper tests. The only other scenario I can think of is one of those urgent cases we all get where functionality needs to be added at short notice and refactored later - it could be handy to make sure that the refactored version produces the same result.
I've actually pulled it out into a package if you want to play with the concept- it's at packagist.org/packages/matthewbdal...