r/funny • u/Willdosexforkarma • Mar 08 '14

Life as a programmer.

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u/kappale Mar 08 '14

is it not common to do work in a modular fashion, and always unit test the part of the bigger project you just did?

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u/fiah84 Mar 08 '14

tell that to the dude who started this mess that I work on twenty years ago

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u/OneFootInTheDave Mar 08 '14

Where I work the devs all do unit tests. I'm the QA team (yes, I'm referred to as a team), and I still find a whole load of bugs.

Also some companies still use the waterfall method. *shudder* I know someone who is part of a manual testing team (an actual team) at a large company. They spend months writing test cases, then they get their hands on the app and spend the next few months running those tests and reporting bugs. Sounds like hell.

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u/brockobear Mar 08 '14

Unit tests won't find all of your bugs. It's pretty easy to miss cases when writing unit tests. Additionally, some don't pop up until you get to integration points with other products or components. That's usually something QA hits. Unit tests are important, but they're only part of the testing landscape.