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I've been in this kind of place once, but it wasn't web dev. I was writing calibration and test software for fiber optic switches. In that particular case, yo
by pmiller2 8y ago
I've been in this kind of place once, but it wasn't web dev. I was writing calibration and test software for fiber optic switches. In that particular case, you really can't mock out the real world behavior of a specialized piece of hardware that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Granted, there were theoretically some bits that could have been tested using automation, but those weren't the bits that ever caused any trouble.
- gizmo686 8y agoDo you mean that there was literally only one instance of the hardware in existence? No physical duplicates of it for development/testing?
- pmiller2 8y agoAt one point, there was only one instance. We got it pretty much as soon as the hardware engineers were finished with it. It didn't work very well, so that made things a little more difficult for us (i.e. if something happened we didn't expect, it was difficult to decide whether to blame hardware or software).