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Historically, plenty of projects have worked fine without 100% test coverage and lots of CI infrastructure. If you're saying that collective code ownership req
by dasmoth 10y ago
Historically, plenty of projects have worked fine without 100% test coverage and lots of CI infrastructure. If you're saying that collective code ownership requires these things just to work at all, that sounds like a fairly powerful argument against collective code ownership.
- flukus 10y agoHistorically, plenty of projects had bugs in them for years without anyone noticing. I've come across situations were I've been modifying and rewriting stuff and found that clients have been under billed for a decade costing many millions of dollars.
- dasmoth 10y agoAre you positive that the clients would have remained clients if they'd been billed "correctly"? I have trouble getting excited about "X has been broken for years" except in pretty special cases, e.g. code paths that only get exercised when your Mars lander is about to touch down.