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The team that stopped writing tests

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At Meta I worked on notifications, a team of about twenty. We shipped fast and the systems were huge - hundreds of millions of notifications a day - but our test coverage sat at about 35%. Nobody was proud of it. Everyone knew tests mattered. There was just always something more urgent, and writing…

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  1. 2026-10-21 21:07 · DEV Community — AI
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