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Michał Podeszwa

How many bugs would you said you guys were able to catch with the introduction of testing with a project like that, which was previously completely untested?

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Mike Bybee • Edited

OMFG so many. I knew I was on borrowed time for calling out management, but even some of the other teams were probably gunning for me when they started getting test failures and test coverage alarms on commit (which is stupid, because they had both the authoring app and the test runner on their local). Like, hearing dozens of grumbles of "God damn it" from nearby cubicles each day, for the first week especially. The devs I commandeered to work on it would IM our group "DRINK!" (we made it into a mock drinking game) every time it happened.

I really wish I had the foresight to open source it before giving it to them. I'm sure it was quickly abandoned after I left.