Re:Goodbye, Flash
by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:51PM
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> From what I read, Flash's test suite was subpar to non-existent and people were afraid to touch anything in the codebase.
If that's the case, Flash should be held up as a case study for the utility of robust tests. Because the amount of refactoring needed to make it fit the mobile world was significant, and if the codebase was fragile because of lack of tests, that refactoring may have proved expensive enough to kill the whole technology stack.
If that's the case, Flash should be held up as a case study for the utility of robust tests. Because the amount of refactoring needed to make it fit the mobile world was significant, and if the codebase was fragile because of lack of tests, that refactoring may have proved expensive enough to kill the whole technology stack.