What’s the most overrated “best practice” in software engineering? For me it’s obsessing over code coverage percentages. A 90% coverage number means nothing if the tests aren’t actually testing meaningful behavior. What’s one you think gets way too much hype?

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Batch QA, understand why it is done when there is lots of data.

But the amount of errors missed doesn't reap any rewards.

Totally agree

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