Back in 1996 I was using CVS at work. Before that it was RCS or SCCS (RCS was the first version control system I used). This was at Bell-Northern Research and Nortel, which was not a bastion of cutting edge techniques. ClearCase was pretty commonly used as well (it came out in 1992).
Automated testing wasn't science fiction. It was regularly done, just as system or integration tests. You'd see who did the commit that broke the build. This was before QA even got to do their work. This was something done across the company and I'm certain that it wasn't the only company that did this.
Automated testing wasn't science fiction. It was regularly done, just as system or integration tests. You'd see who did the commit that broke the build. This was before QA even got to do their work. This was something done across the company and I'm certain that it wasn't the only company that did this.