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@Aijan@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev • 1 year ago

I Don't Trust My Own Code

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I Don't Trust My Own Code

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@Aijan@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev • 1 year ago
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Recently, I had a conversation with a junior developer on my team. Let’s call him Alan. We were talking about a new notification feature that was going to be used to send reminder e-mails to potentially thousands of people if they had forgotten to enter certain data in the last month or so. Alan was confident that the code he’d written was correct. “I’ve tested it well.”, he said…
  • @groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8•1 year ago

    Yep. This is the way. Also, you’d be surprised how many devs don’t run through their own QA steps before asking other people to verify.

    • @Fades@lemmy.world
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      Yep, shit devs will rely on those reviewing the PR to do their work for them.

      • @groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2•1 year ago

        Steps to test: “Idk try some shit”

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