Bits are cheap

Confusion is expensive.

I always push people to over document, by using verbose naming conventions for example. Test names should tell you what’s wrong without having to even look at the failure. The time saved by future-you not having to figure out what some cryptic abbreviations mean is worth the few seconds it takes to type out the longer name. Best of all, with modern IDE’s, you will rarely even have to do that much.


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