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The other thing that needs to be considered is the total effort for the refactoring including necessary testing. As a development manager the thing that scares
by Tyrannosaurs 16y ago
The other thing that needs to be considered is the total effort for the refactoring including necessary testing.
As a development manager the thing that scares me isn't the small fix, it's that it takes place on a critical much used library that has potentially far reaching consequences.
- stcredzero 16y agoI had experience with multiple such examples. At the same time I was developing new functionality, my boss was also tweaking the libraries. So our tester kept telling me my code was broken. Then I'd look into it and find that the Strategy object used to calculate quantities in the whole app was broken. Again
- nikster 16y agoHave you ever heard of unit tests? It's the only solution. Unit tests, of course, are another hard sell. "what you need to spend just as much time writing tests as you did writing the code??" But I find the benefits are almost immediate, at least for new code. It's not some abstract thing down the road - it's an immediate boost to dev speed.