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Comment by Aperocky | Hacker News Reader

Unless they also have 750K tests like sqlite do, I can't imagine this will go well, even if/especially if the legacy code warrants a refactor.

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Better than 750k tests is millions of customers! They’ll test it for you!

Microsoft has patented that approach!

And yet somehow, Windows 11 remains a steaming pile of incoherent garbage.

The only person fixing bugs at Microsoft is Raymond Chen and he's still patching windows 3.11

I should check to see if SimCity runs on Windows 11.

This is only because people disable telemetry and online accounts.

it is indeed the users fault windows 11 is dogshit. facepalm

The only way to not make it garbage is do those thing.

And in the end Microsoft removes the start button because their telemetry said that nobody clicks it[0] :)

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/why-microsoft-murder...

Why not use ai to update the tests first? Make sure the tests conform to the old codebase, then use those same tests to verify the new functionality?

Serious answer: A lot of times these legacy software are different from sqlite. To end to end test sqlite is a lot easier than a VPN client under distinct environments. It's simply a lot more costly and harder to setup or even possible to find all of these moving variables.

A change in behavior maybe construed as a bug, a breaking change or a regression, and a lot of time it's not so obvious. Sometimes you want the original behavior, sometimes you don't. Sometimes changing one for the better means another behavior needs to go, and you don't know if the user already depended on that other behavior. That's the real staying power of legacy software despite universal agreement that they suck.

With how shit their software is, it would be better if even if monkey pooped and smudged it on a screen.

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