On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 21:25 -0500, 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.
I knew one programmer who wrote terrible code
True, the person that test, should not be the one who wrote it. <grin> otoh, don't blame programmers for all that is black, dark and evil. At a major telcom-equipment-provider, their where some managers, that were able to sell concrete-life-jackets (with ISO-certification). And knowingly. On the way back to the office we were asked how we were able to get around unrealistic promises. Specifications (IF ANY EXISTED) that changed weekly (if not daily) But most of the time you had to code based on some scribled notes from a meeting. And when you asked about an estimated time of delivery, they were angry that it was not already finished. So bottom line, programmers are almost human... :-) </grin> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org