Code Testing Culture

Noun · Hacker Culture

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  1. The shared norms and expectations a team has around writing, maintaining, and trusting tests. Strong code testing culture means tests are part of everyday engineering discipline rather than a box checked only after incidents.

    In plain English: The team culture around how seriously tests are written and maintained.

    Example: "Their code testing culture matured when flaky tests started being treated as real bugs instead of unavoidable background annoyance."

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