Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter

Re:Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter by leephillips on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @02:55PM (#7599753)

But rudimentary testing of critical code is not part of Apple's corporate culture. They have released versions of the Finder with amateurish bugs that delete files[1] and versions of Mail that randomly delete messages[2]. Several versions of Mail on iPhone, a couple of iOS versions ago, send hundreds of copies of a message when emailing a link from Safari[3]. They've chosen to hoard over a hundred billion dollars in cash rather than hiring more competent engineers and enforcing quality control.

The blame for these fiascos, and for the goto fail bug, getting out the door lies not with the programmers, who can not avoid making mistakes, but the with the CEO and other management, who decide how to allocate resources.

[1]http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopa.... [2]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758081&.... [3]http://lee-phillips.org/iphoneUpgradeWarning-4-2-1/

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Re:Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter by loumf on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:05PM (#7600823)

The thing that kills me is that rudimentary unit testing of simple functions like this makes development faster. You have to run the code, right? It's easier to run it in a unit test than to set up an environment to run the result.

My pet peeve is code that is so broken that it has obviously never even been run.

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Re:Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:56PM (#7601036)

> My pet peeve is code that is so broken that it has obviously never even been run.

Yeah...in my first support job I had to deal with a customer call that traced back to a install script for our company's (quite pricey, enterprise back-end) software dying with a syntax error.

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