Is it possible for an open-source project to be successful without unit tests?

1 points by bryanp 15y ago ↗ HN

I'm getting ready to publicly announce/release a Ruby project (< 1.0). At this point no unit tests have been written. What do you think, can an open-source project be successful without unit tests given the popularity of TDD among developers?

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blcArmadillo 15y ago ↗

This is a good question. In addition, if anyone has good resources on setting up a development environment that includes things like unit testing and continuous integration I'd love to have it. I always want to implement these concepts into my projects but find myself getting so caught up in the complexities of setting them up that I just say screw it and move on to working on coding without these additional tools.