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		abscondment on Jan 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 > Also, shouldn't these simple bugs be quickly and fully discovered by automated tests? Do you actually believe this? Tests are a nice first pass, but they'll never fully discover every bug -- especially with a huge change like this.

jamongkad on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

Exactly as painful as it might seem. Automated tests can only get you so far. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and dig into the code base.

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