“The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests”

— Kent Beck

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 98.

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