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joelhooks on April 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using checklists for code review

Checklists are OK, but beware the checklist. They tend to cause complacency. "It wasn't in the checklist!"

npsimons on April 25, 2013 [–]

"It wasn't in the checklist!"

"Well now it is, and there's a unit test for it, and you won't be able to commit code that breaks that unit test. Problem solved."

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