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The test suite for the grody old IRC bot a few jobs ago was written in Expect. One intern season we set a project to, when announcing a new PR was published, to format the primary reviewer’s handle slightly. It ended up taking 3 days to update the tests, understanding expect, then writing a filter to strip out IRC color codes.


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