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[โ€“] squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At my job:

We do have a linter and tons of automatic tests. Changes are generally quite safe, not a lot of manual tests are necessary.

Meanwhile, a trivial change requires a whole day because the developer has to adjust dozens of tests and get them through a pipeline that takes hours to run.

[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 days ago

Oof. I've had places that the pipeline was getting long. At one of my previous jobs I made it so all the tests could run locally, and we were keeping the full build as slow as possible.

We also didn't do any browser tests (eg: selenium) because those tend to be slow and most people are bad at making them stable.

It's important to know whats worth testing.