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Re:Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture? by Floegipoky on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:12PM (#17268218)
Overall the "Joel Test" is still relevant, but a few of his steps haven't aged well. 3 and 10 in particular.
Re:Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture? by dasmoth on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:23PM (#17268318)
10 (“do you have testers?”) still seems pretty appealing to me. I still see a lot of value in manual and black-box testing, especially for interactive tools.
Re:Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture? by ohitsdom on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:35PM (#17268428)
#3? What's wrong with daily builds? Or do you mean it doesn't go far enough in that builds should be continuous, done with every code checkin?