Jure Leskovec was my Professor at Stanford a few years back, cool to see he's behind this.
He seemed like a good guy and got the sense that he was destined to do something big
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He seemed like a good guy and got the sense that he was destined to do something big
Writing a failing test that reproduces a bug is something I learned pretty early on.
But I never consciously thought about and approached the test as a way to debug. I thought about it more of a TDD way - first write tests, then go off and debug/code until the test is green. Also practically, let's fill the gap in coverage and make sure this thing never happens again, especially if I had to deal with it on the weekend.
What was interesting to me about this was actively approaching the test as a way of debugging, designing it to give you useful information and using the test in conjunction with debugger