Re:You are never taught how to build quality software
by nradov on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:04PM
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That's only true up to a point. There are some quality assurance and control activities that are essentially "free" in that they actually allow for shipping faster by preventing rework. But that requires a high level of team maturity and process discipline, so some teams are simply incapable of doing it. And even in ideal circumstances it's impossible to ship defect free software (plus the endless discussions over whether particular issues are bugs or enhancement requests).
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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software
by johnnyanmac on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:38PM
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yeah, it's a spectrum. Clearly no one is expecting an app to be truly bug free if the underlying compiler itself has bugs. But how often do users truly run into compiler level bugs?
I think when the author says "bug free", it's from the user perspective. where bugs either need to go out of your way to trigger or are so esoteric it's impossible to think about hitting without that user themself knowing the code inside out. Games is definitely an industry where the quality of code has always dipped to a point where users can easily hit issues in normal use, and only gets worse as games get more complex. That's where it gets truly intolerable
Re:You are never taught how to build quality software
by FalconSensei on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:10PM
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There are tools that help, but you still need time to integrate those tools, learn how to use them, etc. If you are doing unit and integration tests, you need time to not only write those, but also actually plan your tests, and learn how to write tests. Which... needs time