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Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How to Avoid Coupling Your Tests to the Implementation

When i write tests, i don't actually test the abstraction. I tend to test the implementation. And just because i feel like i can, i can test more thoroughly if i don't look at the implementation at all. So as long as you're not doing that a lot, long as you are not having to mass ive refacting your tests all the time, then i'd i'm oka with that. But you know, this is a nary which i may just other people might disagree with me on thisn ye and en,. This isn't the show where i push your ideas against mine, but that might be a fun conversation to have in another context.

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