You've got the argument the wrong way around. Architects don't test like software developers do because they can't. They'd probably love to if they could, but because they can't, they're forced to do incredibly expensive and rigorous testing beforehand.
Software developers can test once we've built, and change what we've built easily, and try out things on real users and see how they actually use it. It's a massive advantage that we have over architects, that we should celebrate :)
Thanks, Marcus for your feedback. My intention was not to advocate for avoiding any change of software, and not do A B testing or agile adoption over time. I suffer on a daily basis because of zero tests included in a project I interact with. Mostly this code was done in a rush and first time actually tested on production. Also, the leak of tests cost the company a huge amount of money + time, since they have to pay manual QA. I still believe we can learn something from pedant architects, not really copy paste, but get some discipline out of that.
You've got the argument the wrong way around. Architects don't test like software developers do because they can't. They'd probably love to if they could, but because they can't, they're forced to do incredibly expensive and rigorous testing beforehand.
Software developers can test once we've built, and change what we've built easily, and try out things on real users and see how they actually use it. It's a massive advantage that we have over architects, that we should celebrate :)
Thanks, Marcus for your feedback. My intention was not to advocate for avoiding any change of software, and not do A B testing or agile adoption over time. I suffer on a daily basis because of zero tests included in a project I interact with. Mostly this code was done in a rush and first time actually tested on production. Also, the leak of tests cost the company a huge amount of money + time, since they have to pay manual QA. I still believe we can learn something from pedant architects, not really copy paste, but get some discipline out of that.
Thanks for accepting my feedback.
I don't mean to imply that testing isn't important. It's very important. But this "architecture" metaphor isn't working for me ;)