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That seems unlikely to be true (I haven’t measured but worked there). Perhaps it’s true of Terraform where testing is verbose anyway, but it’s almost certainly not of Packer, for example.

Why not? Testing packer would mean specifying a large number of machine configurations, building them, and verifying the output images. Why would that be smaller than the actual code?

I just cloned Packer from the master branch, and via a (very) crude mechanism looked at the number of lines of code in `_test.go` files vs the number of lines of code in `.go` files which do not have the `test` build tag, excluding vendored libraries.

There are approximately 60,000 lines of test code, vs 149000 lines of non-test code.

Other HashiCorp products have a much higher test to production code ratio, but it is by no means uniformly 10:1.

Is there an article on this or something?

Yes:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszygk1cpEc

Ew. I feel bad for their developers.

I feel sorry for your employer.

Care to elaborate why? Do you assume the company forces this on the engineering team?