Anton Aylward wrote:
On 12/08/2014 08:50 PM, Doug wrote:
I don't think everything you said is true. Some of the Linux distros have paid programmers, and I'm sure that they must do some testing before they put an app out. Even programmers who donate their time must do some testing too.No programmer I ever knew would just write code and ship! And in a long engineering career, I've known quite a few!
Indeed, and I've managed many. Programmers test their own code to do what they think they have written. Sometimes they find that what they wrote isn't what they thought they wrote, but on the whole programmers are useless at doing meaningful testing of their own code. They are too attached to it to see it for what it really is.
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