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I agree, I'm paid by the hour to deliver a set of features, and the client very, VERY rarely would pay for me to start 'diverging' and writing test cases for so

I agree, I'm paid by the hour to deliver a set of features, and the client very, VERY rarely would pay for me to start 'diverging' and writing test cases for something they see as superfluous. A bit of field tests (ie, users as testers) and if it works, it ships. I don't make the rules. The scary bit is, often, it works just fine; in many cases, it's cheaper to reboot/relaunch for a 1/100000 crashing bug than paying me to find it and fix it!

Yoric 9y ago
That's one of the reasons I'm pretty happy to work in a place where my manager will generally agree if I tell them that I'm planning to spend the next 3 months improving the test suite or harness or adding one layer of safety to eliminate a class of bugs or adding a new static analysis. Of course, this is also a place where we practice static analysis, continuous integration, code reviews and we're now progressively migrating code to Rust.