I worked for a cell phone company. They had a large piece of software that is used by all customer-facing employees to manage accounts (billing, network, provisioning). Over its life, the software had been rewritten in many languages. Prior to my joining the team, someone thought to take a .NET application and rebuild it as a web application (Spring MVC and ExtJS4).
The first day on the team, before even looking at the code base, I ask our development lead what unit testing framework we are using for the Java code and what we are using for the front end code. He gives me this funny look and tells me to speak the guy onboarding me. I of course go and ask the lead onboarding me and he gives me an answer that turned my world upside down.
"Automated testing is a waste of time. You will spend too much time writing test then developing code and delivering stories to the business"
I need to point out that this guy eventually goes on to an executive level position. proving that it is not the quality of work you deliver, but the optics of delivering quality software that counts in large corporations. I digress.
I receive my SVN credentials later that day and come to the realization that I have made a very poor career choice. The front end code alone is over 5k Javascript files with functions spanning thousands of lines long all full with 100's of nested asynchronous callbacks. Not only is the code crap, but the tools that we had were not used correctly. For example comments.
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The code base was riddled with these. What story was this for? would have been useful to pull the Jira story and see what you were trying to do. I guess I'll spend the day going through your 5k line function that does everything, but nothing. Or, better yet, let me check the SVN commit date. Maybe they committed some good notes for me there.
01/01/2018 - Fix bug
Damnit!
I did my year, which is the minimum you can be in a job before posting out. I left without a second thought. When I left the business was complaining because the testing team was larger than the development team. I wonder why?
The first day on the team, before even looking at the code base, I ask our development lead what unit testing framework we are using for the Java code and what we are using for the front end code. He gives me this funny look and tells me to speak the guy onboarding me. I of course go and ask the lead onboarding me and he gives me an answer that turned my world upside down.
"Automated testing is a waste of time. You will spend too much time writing test then developing code and delivering stories to the business"
I need to point out that this guy eventually goes on to an executive level position. proving that it is not the quality of work you deliver, but the optics of delivering quality software that counts in large corporations. I digress.
I receive my SVN credentials later that day and come to the realization that I have made a very poor career choice. The front end code alone is over 5k Javascript files with functions spanning thousands of lines long all full with 100's of nested asynchronous callbacks. Not only is the code crap, but the tools that we had were not used correctly. For example comments.
//01/01/2018 - Fix bug - Begin //01/01/2018 - Fix bug - End
The code base was riddled with these. What story was this for? would have been useful to pull the Jira story and see what you were trying to do. I guess I'll spend the day going through your 5k line function that does everything, but nothing. Or, better yet, let me check the SVN commit date. Maybe they committed some good notes for me there.
01/01/2018 - Fix bug
Damnit!
I did my year, which is the minimum you can be in a job before posting out. I left without a second thought. When I left the business was complaining because the testing team was larger than the development team. I wonder why?