Martijn Engler

Nov 22
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Do you know that feeling where you have to do all this things to finish up (in my case: write tests for my code) some work and everything is going well? Too well. You just know something has to be wrong…

And there it is. Right out of nowhere. You’re working on your last test, it’s almost the same as the five before this one. It’s just three lines of code. You write it, run your test and don’t even really look at the output. Just as you’re about to check it in to your version control system you notice it. It can’t be. You run it again. It’s really true…

Your test failed. It actually failed. Your last test failed. The one that was going to set you free of all this work.

I still can’t believe it. After hours of searching and debugging I’m still not sure why it fails. I’ve got somewhat closer, but I still don’t really get it. I’m missing something, that’s for sure. But what it is? I have no idea….

Will be continued… (I hope)