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[juan_gandhi]

Just deleted one test - the data on which it was based went to the db, so it's not in the code anymore.

Have you ever deleted a test?

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[spamsink.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Once a hardware is discontinued and out of support, there's no need to test any code generation for it.

[nponeccop.livejournal.com]

Постоянно. Требования через 5 лет поменялись. Или тест поломался, но после исправления стал эквивалентен другому тесту, который уже был.

[stas]

Дык конечно, бывает. Код вон - тест вон. Хотя, к сожалению, реже, чем хотелось бы - некоторый окаменевший навоз мамонта приходится по 10 лет поддерживать, потому что клиенты.

[sorhed.livejournal.com]

Tests are code.

If it's ok to delete code, it should be ok to delete tests.

(I do both all the time).

[sorhed.livejournal.com]

(this also means — you should refactor tests, you should carefully engineer tests, and generally the less code for the same test coverage, the better).

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

Sí, naturalmente.