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20 years ago, I worked on a C and C++ project that supported a billion dollar business. Almost everyone used vi. They used none of those other tools, and there
by icedchai 3y ago
20 years ago, I worked on a C and C++ project that supported a billion dollar business. Almost everyone used vi. They used none of those other tools, and there were maybe a half dozen unit tests in the whole project. I sure hope times have changed.
- haggy102 3y agoWhy not advocate for better testing? What was preventing you from spending more time unit testing code running a billion dollar business?
- post-it 3y agoA project manager, probably. "Advocating for XYZ" costs emotional capital that I'm not necessarily willing to devote to a particular project, or to my employer at all.
- frutiger 3y ago> What was preventing you from spending more time unit testing code running a billion dollar business? Presumably they were busy generating billions of dollars of revenue.
- icedchai 3y agoAt the time, I was a junior engineer, barely out of school. This company was run, technically, by people with 30+ years of experience. They preferred manual testing. Also, I'll add that automated testing was definitely not as much of a thing in 2003 as it is in 2023.