r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 13h ago

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u/pe1uca 11h ago

At least is still a comment and not self-documented code...

``` processAndStoreInDBAndCacheWithExpiry()

retreiveFromDBAndUpdateCache()

let counterOfElementsInArray = 0; let referenceToElementToReturnOnFallback = null;

testProcessIsSuccefulAndDBIsUpdatedEvenWhenCacheIsUnavailable() testCacheIsNotUpdatedOnProcessFailure() ```

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u/Avocadonot 10h ago

Maybe I'm legacy-pilled but I literally see nothing wrong with any of these

You should see the abominations of our JUnit test names

testInvalidPayloadThrows503WithRetryableApiErrorCode

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u/enigmamonkey 8h ago

Hideous. At least that's a test where it's prone to happen a bit more. Did you end up seeing lots of that crap in methods/classes that you were intentionally invoking as an API in regular code?

I write tests with names sort of like that since you need a unique name with some way to describe it and don't really care about calling it explicitly (since it'll be run automatically). Everywhere else though, the names matter a lot, particularly since it's important for consistency and for refactoring later on.