There's a lot of fear at my job about changing code. I've been trying to tell them to start writing automated tests. Or at least a linter to check for syntax errors. They're all like "ooh that sounds hard maybe next quarter"

Meanwhile, a trivial change requires a whole day because the developer has to manually test everything.

I just unilaterally added checks to code I have ownership over, but anything shared I'm getting "maybe in two quarters we can prioritize this" from management.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 6 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.

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