One time while coding, I managed to get as test output:
Expected: Success Found: SuccessThankfully, I knew immediately how I fucked up, otherwise this would’ve been a rather unfun debugging session…
Fucking up your printf arguments is a time-honored tradition
Not in this case, I’m afraid.
A library was returning a singleton Success-object (as opposed to several failure cases) and I decided to introduce an own type for that, but which also had a singleton Success-object. And well, I forgot to adjust the test assertion accordingly.
So, those were actually different objects from different classes being compared. But when displaying the test result to me, their .toString() yielded exactly the same:
SuccessFucking singletons
You’re bringing back nightmares from grad school. The “online” homework problems… Shudder.
Makes me wonder whether there’s a whitespace character getting included in the comparison. Lowest bid developer doing lowest bid developer things.
