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Re:Code Review as a Service by Pxtl on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:28AM (#29625954)
In my experience, splitting the testing team out of development materializes refactoring as costly.

"What parts of the system did this impact?"

"Well, this is a core piece of our ORM config, so... the entire data layer, so from a functional perspective this change impacts every part of the system"

"Then you're not changing it, QA can't rerun all their old tests, it would take months, most of those tests don't even work anymore".

End result: refactoring never happens. Get it right the first time.

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Re:Code Review as a Service by vinceguidry on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:39AM (#29626086)
Naturally. In an Agile environment it's more or less impossible to get it right the first time without seriously forward-thinking architecture, which takes time that could be spent pushing harder towards the deadline.

It's a business decision to organize software production this way. Refactoring and ease of software maintenance are quality of life issues for engineers. Not business concerns.

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