Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests...
by mcv on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:33AM
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If Scotty didn't confirm that it's important enough to risk serious damage, he didn't do his job. His job is not to blindly trust the captains omniscience, his job is to inform the captain of the technical consequences. If warp 9 in 15 minutes is preferable to taking damage, than that's the better option.
In the example with the line of code that took 6 days, there was no dramatic emergency in production that required cutting corners. If it had been an emergency, of course the code refactoring demanded in code review should have been postponed; those changes increased the impact of the change, and therefore the resting requirements.
And if it really is an emergence that requires people to drop what they're doing, then someone with sufficient authority should be directly involved in order to override all the usual procedures.
But you don't just drop all procedures just because somebody claims somebody said something. That would be dangerously irresponsible.
In the example with the line of code that took 6 days, there was no dramatic emergency in production that required cutting corners. If it had been an emergency, of course the code refactoring demanded in code review should have been postponed; those changes increased the impact of the change, and therefore the resting requirements.
And if it really is an emergence that requires people to drop what they're doing, then someone with sufficient authority should be directly involved in order to override all the usual procedures.
But you don't just drop all procedures just because somebody claims somebody said something. That would be dangerously irresponsible.