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Green Tests and Red Tests

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗
A central benefit of doing test-first development is getting a suite of behavioral tests to regress code and support refactoring efforts. But when doing test-first development in practice, many developers write too many tests and implementation-dependent tests that break during refactoring. They spend more time rewriting tests than refactoring code. The very practice that was … Continued. The post Green Tests and Red Tests first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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