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Google Testing Blog: This Code is CRAP

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Note: This post is rated PG-13 for use of a mild expletive. If you are likely to be offended by the repeated use a word commonly heard in e...

Note: This post is rated PG-13 for use of a mild expletive. If you are likely to be offended by the repeated use a word commonly heard in elementary school playgrounds, please don’t read any further. CRAP is short for Change Risk Anti-Patterns – a mildly offensive acronym to protect you from deeply offensive code. CRAP was originally developed and launched in 2007 by yours truly (Alberto Savoia) and my colleague and partner in crime Bob Evans. Why call it CRAP? When a developer or tester has to work with someone else’s (bad) code, they rarely comment on it by saying things like: “The…

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