The Shackles of Coupling

Having a senior engineer like Erik join the team had an immediate impact on the direction and spirit of our automated tests. Not only was Erik a wealth of knowledge about design and testing, he helped us look at our code in a new light and with a fresh set of eyes. Which is why we all stood up and listened when he said:

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Too many unit tests? What? How is that even possible? We had been under the impression there was no such thing as too many tests. What could possibly go wrong by adding more tests!?

He then proceeded to draw a picture and started to explain this term we had heard of but never fully understood—something ...

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