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		neodude on July 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and ob... Where do you draw the line between "creating new software" and a "large scale project"? Every large scale project starts as a small project, so at some point you must decide to start writing tests; and then you have the burden of backfilling 'em.

Paradigma11 on July 2, 2014 [–]

But at least you dont have to write the tests that were rendered useless due to changing requirements.

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