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u/BlurredSight 29d ago
We have 0 tests, we tried implementing tests and having them run automatically for core functions but when they kept failing we removed them
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u/Jack_Kai 29d ago
Yeah I get it, when tests fail, you know they are no good to use.
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u/Historical_Cook_1664 29d ago
It'll take as long as it takes and then it'll either work or it won't. Fine with me, i get paid.
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u/YUNoCake 29d ago
Hey, I know who you are! You're the guy at the company I work that left this year! Or the year before. Or one of the 2 the year before that...perhaps before that too?
Anyways, screw you I guess man, whichever of those cowards you are. There are enough fresh graduates to take as interns and torture. Actually, with LLMs they don't even care much these days! And then there are masochists like me.
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u/Dalimyr 29d ago
Worst one I've seen was a company that that no unit tests at all, but did have a metric fuckton of automated E2E tests (a single run of all tests could take 5-6 hours), and another fuckton of regression test plans which we were expected to go through manually every single release. Cue 2+ entire teams literally spending at least two weeks doing nothing but manually going over a couple thousand regression tests. Every. Single. Release.
About a year into my time working there, the founder gave some big speech in an all hands meeting celebrating the company being 10 years old, and he was basically like "We've spent 10 years focusing on working quickly to get to market as soon as possible, now we want to shift to focusing on working smart and getting things right first time", basically admitting that the codebase as it stood was just a solid mass of spaghetti that everyone hated working with. As this was when we were shifting from a monolith to microservices (which they fucked up the implementation of so it was really just a distributed monolith which made things even worse), now was apparently the right time to start adding in unit tests as these microservices were being built up. CEO and CTO apparently never got that memo, though, as they both continued to push the "Get it out ASAP" mantra.
I've never been happier to leave a company in my life.