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>"The Joel Test is now considered to be obsolete because it awards points for things like "Do you have testers?" and "Do you fix bugs before writing new code?",
by FpUser 5y ago
>"The Joel Test is now considered to be obsolete because it awards points for things like "Do you have testers?" and "Do you fix bugs before writing new code?", which aren't considered best practices by most devs today"
"Most devs" today are busy producing megatons of JS code with gigatons of external dependencies on things like LTrim().
btw my wife consults for a company that does nothing but software testing for 800lb gorilla companies. The business is striving. I guess they did not know that they should get approval from "most devs" first.
- djmips 5y agoI don't understand why 'fixing bugs' before writing new code isn't still a best practice?
- spc476 5y agoPerhaps because of this Bill Gates quote? "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say 'Would you buy a new version because of bugs?' You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis."