On Saturday, 6 December 2014 at 16:23:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 03:48:42PM +0000, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, 2014-12-06 at 07:14 -0800, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
[…]
> Oh, I *know* there are Javascript testing frameworks out
> there...
> the problem is convincing people to actually incorporate
> said tests
> as part of the development process. Sure, *I* can run the
> tests with
> my own code changes, but there are 50-100 developers working
> on the
> project who are also constantly making changes, and unless
> they also
> regularly run unittests, the whole exercise is kinda moot.
If the team is 50 to 100 programmers 1 of whom thinks testing
is a
good idea then I can see an unmitigatable disaster looming and
the
technical bosses (*) being sacked. Best bet, get a new job now.
(*) management and accounting bosses never get sacked, because
it is
never their fault.
[...]
Disaster *looming*? Haha... disaster has been *happening* for
the past
how many years now... Hence my earlier references to regressions
spiralling out of control and new features breaking old ones
like
there's no tomorrow, and developers scrambling like mad to fix
them all
in a whack-a-mole bid to bash the product into shippable form
by the
deadline, of which we tend to be informed the week of (or
sometimes, the
Friday afternoon before a Monday deadline)...
Fortunately(?), no one has been sacked yet. Part of it may have
to do
with the fact that practically all our customers are corporate,
and
corporate customers tend to value business relationships and
deals above
actual product quality, even when they're on the receiving end.
(Just my
cynical guess, though. I have no concrete evidence of this. :-P)
T
+1,000
( D scope should be smaller than C. JRE/CLR should be of limits.
Also this one dude(Linus) talks about a big lang(C++) and it's
advocates:
- http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
I'm sure he he has no credibility /s )
