Comment I feel so inadequate (Score 1) 172
Less than 500Gb. Should I start generating random binary data to catch up?
Grandparent is getting OTP mixed up with ROT13. I do that all the time. It cost me my job once.
I tested that. I even ran it twice, just to make sure.
Thank god I don't have to hang out with you lot at parties.
What are these "parties" of which you speak?
What kind of hardware do they bring?
Having developed software for nearly fifteen years, I remember the dark days before testing was all the rage
Umm.. wtf are you talking about? Extreme Programming is 13 years old, and it wasn't first. Even the waterfall model has testing, and it's 40 years old:
1. Requirements specification 2. Design 3. Construction (AKA implementation or coding) 4. Integration 5. Testing and debugging (AKA Validation) 6. Installation 7. Maintenance
Just because you didn't know how to test your software back then doesn't mean testing didn't exist.
He didn't say testing didn't exist. It definitely wasn't as prevalent or mandatory as now. He's right. Testing often wouldn't be done until the end of the cycle, and was frequently shortened or skipped entirely to meet deadlines. That doesn't seem to happen any more.
Of course, if they don't like what they see, you have a different problem. Figure out how to get on the right track.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
