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Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by threeseed on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:55PM (#16119928)
I actually put the blame on Agile.

A few years ago there was a noticeable increase in the frequency of point updates at the expense of quality. In agile, testing either (a) relies heavily on automation or (b) only tests that particular story. In highly complex systems that's often not sufficient and rarely do security teams for example involve themselves on a per story basis.

Personally I think the industry as a whole needs to sit back and realise that Agile wasn't the panacea it was made out to be.

Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by tebura on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:04AM (#16121732)
I am absolutely agree with you. Agile is not silver bullet and people just don't get it. Also many times it is executed very wrongly.
Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by ams6110 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:37PM (#16120167)
Well, more specifically the issue is that unit-testing alone is not enough. At some point you have to test the entire system as a whole.
Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by h_r on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @10:57PM (#16121299)
I don't think agile practices preclude running regression suites throughout the development cycle.
Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by raverbashing on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:03AM (#16122172)
No, a lot of Agile teams do have integration tests and higher level tests

But the TDD cargo-culters and UncleBob fans forget that inconvenient fact and think TDD solves ALL problems