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Tests Are The New Moat (saewitz.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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It used to be that good documentation, strong contracts, well designed interfaces, and a comprehensive test suite meant users could trust your platform. Help you develop it further. That it was rigid and well designed. And yet, all of these things actually just make it easier for competing companies to re-build your work on their own foundations.

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[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if we’ll end up in a situation of open source projects with closed source tests. Though I don’t know how that would work, because how would you contribute a new feature if the tests are closed? 🤔