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Comment by DavidChouinard | Hacker News Reader

The most interesting tidbit is this:

  Code to Test Ratio: 1:0.8

That seems like an awful lot, no?

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If you think that's a lot, check out SQLite's ratio:

http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

No. I've worked on projects where our tests outweighed our "code" by 2x or more.

No, not at all; especially not for enterprise applications.

The current project I work on has 292908 LOC, and Code to Test Ratio: 1:1.1.

On the other hand, I work on enterprise apps with 200-500k LOC and maybe 1-2K LOC for test. So "Enterprise" probably isn't a good indicator on test ratios.

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