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Discussion on: Do you aim for 80% code coverage? Let me guess which 80% you choose...

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Patryk

I may be reasonably confident something works even without automated testing. My threshold for acceptable confidence varies on whether something is a side project, or an app that handles customer payments, or if I'm prototyping as opposed to writing production code.

Sometimes, manual testing is good enough for me... Context is important.

I do love automated testing, for the record, and think it's important. Just be pragmatic about it.

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miniscruff

Sure, I tend to skip testing entirely for the first release. Gotta get something out there first.

I also accept manual testing IF you only have like 2 end points but probably only for a single update or temp fix. Long term nothing beats automated tests.