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As I said in another comment, I think folks are just disagreeing on terms. I absolutely don't consider things like unit tests or CI to be any kind of "Google-sp
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
As I said in another comment, I think folks are just disagreeing on terms. I absolutely don't consider things like unit tests or CI to be any kind of "Google-specific" engineering advice - they're just standard good engineering practices.
- jeffbee 3y agoTrue, but what I was trying to introduce into the discussion was what another sibling commenter astutely labeled the anti-cargo-cult: industry feeling that anything at Google is an anti-pattern even when that thing is firmly established among other successful software developers for a long time. And in my experience comprehensive unit testing is one of those things that I have sometimes heard waved away.