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In case of software development, plain old common sense tends to take you a lot further than some certification. It is more easy to spot the professional fault
by nuancebydefault 2y ago
In case of software development, plain old common sense tends to take you a lot further than some certification. It is more easy to spot the professional fault leading to a gas leak than catching the professional fault of creating software resulting in subtle race conditions.
- secondcoming 2y agoIt's not just spotting leaks, you can't even install gas applicances without a professional qualification even though most of it is common sense. Yet, literally anyone can work on any type of software without having any sort of proof they're competent in that area. It's all hope and trust.
- nuancebydefault 2y agoI expressed myself unclearly. The gas cerified person gets repercussions because someone found leaks in the pipe fittings this certified person made. The leak is a smoking gun. OTOH The software dev, certified or not, will not get repercussions because of their racey constructs, since it is much harder to point out they did not follow some certified procedure other than some (non airtight) tests and reviews before release. There's no smoking gun pointing to uncertified way-of-work. There's only this one in a million happenstance of a race condition making the system fail. That's where the common sense comes in, only that will prevent/solve possible race condition. There simply is no certified way about it like in pipe fitting.