On Thursday, July 07, 2011, Daren Beattie wrote: > 2. Is there any opposition to having the unit test code in the source tree?
I'll have to come back to the rest of this when I have more time to think. Hopefully this weekend. The unit test part, I wanted to jump in with right away. I do have an objection to bringing in more of this kind of stuff on the grounds that the last guy who messed around with unit testing abandoned everything without really teaching anyone else how any of that was supposed to have worked. He just left a big broken mess that we eventually had to detour around and abandon to keep everything working. I'm a truck driver who speaks Spanish and plays the trumpet, and through a process of attrition I am left as the last person around here who is actually here in any capacity, however small, on a really regular basis. I'm an idiot, not a software engineer, but keeping this bucket of junk going is still my job, because I'm the only one too dumb to just give up and let it go. If you want to do some kind of unit testing doomaflatchie around here, then kindly make it idiot proof, and leave it so an idiot can maintain it after you get bored and go away, because everyone does sooner or later. I barely know what unit testing is as a concept. I don't know how to use it, add to it, subtract from it, or take advantage of it in any way. Furthermore, since I'm a truck driver who may or may not eventually become a Spanish teacher, this is just a big heaping collection of irrelevant trivia I really don't have any reason to study on my own. I'm by no means telling you not to do it, I'm just telling you that if you want to do it, you need to bear in mind that the project manager is a moron, and not a professional software guy, and you're going to have to avoid leaving behind a mess that a moron can't clean up when you're gone. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
