Ask HN: Seriously, How Do You TDD?
in order to have adequate tests, they had to write two or three lines of unit test code for every line of code under test and that those tests required at least as much maintenance as the functional code itself and had just as much chance of being buggy.
Jason Arbon • How Google Tests Software
FDEs tend to write code that gets the job done fast, which usually means – politely – technical debt and hacky workarounds. PD engineers write software that scales cleanly, works for multiple use cases, and doesn’t break. One of the key ‘secrets’ of the company is that generating deep, sustaining enterprise value requires both. BD engineers tend to... See more
Nabeel S. Qureshi • Reflections on Palantir
Many companies reside in the transition zone between older practices and new. They may have solved low hanging fruit like continuous integration but still have largely manual testing. While it slows cycle time, it is important to include manual stages in deployment pipelines. First, it treats each stage of an application’s build the same — as a sta
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