What I wish I knew when I became CTO

Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by knodi123 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:54PM (#16377712)

> I'm convinced that unit tests don't usually find bugs.

At work, I've rejected many merge requests with the comment "this unit test is equivalent to verifying a checksum of the method source". It's so frustrating that people still think it's necessary to write things like this literally real example:

expect(User::MAX_PASSWORD_RESET_ATTEMPTS).to eq(3)

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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by vlovich123 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:34PM (#16378054)

That's an education problem which is not an intractable problem to solve over time by mentoring the code author.

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