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Absolutely. What I find astonishing is how undervalued test feedback time is. I don't know what drives that, but in most jobs I've had to fight to do the right
by switchbak 5y ago
Absolutely. What I find astonishing is how undervalued test feedback time is.
I don't know what drives that, but in most jobs I've had to fight to do the right thing.
Just recently I've made some optimizations to get a functional test suite from 65 minutes down to 3.6. Parallelism is my favorite lever, as it scales so well, and core count is still going up!
- HPsquared 5y agoProbably something to do with that XKCD about waiting for compiling, "The #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off": https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/ Running tests is the same type of thing!