Comments by "" (@adambickford8720) on "Continuous Delivery" channel.

  1. "RAD" tools have been doomsaying development for years; turns out the actual logic isn't that hard. Managing change, coordinating people, trouble shooting, etc are why devs are valuable.
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  2. I couldn't care less about certs; employers disagree.
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  3. If you think automated tests suck at intermittent failures I have some bad news about manual testing...
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  4. I suspect its like leather belts; your experience w/them might be very different depending on the 'culture' of your org(s) and you may draw very different conclusions. I've only seen metrics used as a weapon for productivity or tool for self-promotion. I get thats not the only way they are used, but its hard not to believe your own experiences.
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  5. Test IFoo, not FooBarImpl.
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  6.  @ContinuousDelivery  I meant more that people shouldn't be testing implementation details, never mind adding methods that exist only for the purpose of testing. Do your implementations behave as specified by the IFoo contact?
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  7.  @jboss1073  I'd like to see a link
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  8. Its an estimate, not a promise. Stop pretending you're agile when in practice you function as waterfall. If you need an exact feature set by a specific date then get your Gantt chart and like it. I've seen multiple companies commit to a deadline w/a third party without even meeting w/engineering to see if it was *possible*. They still ask for estimates, but anything above what they committed to is unacceptable. But they still refuse to sequence the events and back into it because they are 'agile', as if agile just increases productivity and reduces waste by magic with no trade-offs.
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  9.  @ContinuousDelivery  Would you like to hear my anecdote about how it is?
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  10. ​ @ContinuousDelivery  I don't see how that's possible. If you have 2 components that are coupled via an MQ, mocking both sides isn't enough. You also have to verify all the configs/permissions etc are in place as well. Further, how do you test that those permissions have the desired effect on the system w/o an environment to do so?
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  11. I was annoyed when i had to skip the second embedded ad :-/
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  12. That's not how bad management works IME. That cowboy coder coworker will give < 1/2 your estimate with a manually tested hack and get the promotion based on 'productivity'. Bad management never connects the dots on the long term maintenance and tech debt, which is exactly why they are bad management! The sad part is that engineers that care about craftsmanship don't stick around so it snowballs.
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  13. The embedded upselling/ads feel like it's coming up on half the content here. Might want to tone that down.
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