Coding Cafe

Yes it’s managements fault. Get asked to rapidly prototype a feature/service. 80% chance the lift is too big, won’t meet requirements, is literally impossible without a quantum computer and 5.2 gig watts of power, not wasting time writing tests for a prototype that will most likely be trashed. When the 20% case happens, scope writing tests, but the customer has already seen the MVP work and is clamoring to get it out now! I explain we need unit and integration testing, proper CI/CD, need to implement logging and Datadog integration, build in Okta integration and with testing, etc.. you get the point, these are necessary and non-trivial task, but most don’t understand why when you just had a working prototype. Customer screams at your manager to deploy what you have now, bugs inevitably introduced, you spend time debugging issues that would have been caught with unit/integration testing or just a little more time refining your service, don’t have time to iterate or improve because of fixing bugs. The cycle continues…