Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me
by croon on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:19AM
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They argued that separate people should look at a problem so as not to make the same mistake twice:
> The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it
You said that issue could be applicable to everyone:
> The same is true of pretty much everybody - PMs and QA included. Everybody misses details and edge cases.
I pointed out that the issue can't be true of everybody, since everyone other than the original developer would generally avoid it. You then said I repeated what you said. Which is it?
> The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it
You said that issue could be applicable to everyone:
> The same is true of pretty much everybody - PMs and QA included. Everybody misses details and edge cases.
I pointed out that the issue can't be true of everybody, since everyone other than the original developer would generally avoid it. You then said I repeated what you said. Which is it?