They are at the leading edge then... I have been interviewing
candidates for a developer position not later than yesterday and it
left me with a bitter test about software process and tools used
within a team working...no source control within a team of 15 people
(10 dev), etc... all that within the biggest isps and telco in the
country. Frankly that scares me to death.
Oh, and when I want to add a tester to a development team some
customers tell me, this this is not possible because it will make the
cost too high and they are assuming that what developers do is free of
defects as they tested it themselves, otherwise that means we don't
have good enough people...mm..well.
It's really interesting as the people themselves are amazingly
intelligent, they're pretty much all recent graduates (a couple of older
developers), and they all have excellent theoretical knowledge of
programming. The problem is the practice - most of them could build
some amazingly funky tools, but the code would be spaghetti and as soon
as they left the tool would be useless. It's getting past that mental
block that they have about team development. The best of them have
embraced UP and UML, but personally I have an aversion to gigantic
processes and bucketloads of docs. I also pushed for (and got)
Subversion installed instead of SourceSafe (thankfully). Still a big
way to go for the VB programmers, but there are a few C coders whu seem
to be a little more open to the ideas of builds over make. Unit testing
is going to be the real problem :(
Still the talk was a success - didn't cover everything suggested, but
thanks for the feedback.
Kev
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