Who Uses TDD Anyway

Content Boarding time 2:30 PM Local time 1:16 PM an Are you a terrorist? Yes No ProdrammerHumor.io

Content Spending 4 hours fixing a bug and realizing that the code you've been compiling was not the code you've been fixing

Content Today at 5:10 PM That was fun, I wrote a 50-line long unit test that does multiple iterations checking different aspects of some convenience functions and while the test passed, was scratching my head as to why the breakpoint I had set to step through and double check them wasn't getting hit. Turns out MSVC analyzed my unit test, the preprocessor macros, and the inline functions it used, traced the entire control flow from start to finish and determined that there were no variables that could possibly result in any different outcome, and optimized the entire unit test down to a single return 0; I mean I guess that's validation that the logic is sound... Is that basically the compiler saying "trust me, bro"?

Junior dev: "Is it normal that the codebase is so difficult to work in?" Senior dev: *stares into the void with thousand-yard gaze* "Years of tight deadlines, changing requirements, and revolving door of developers creates this beautiful disaster. Successful software either dies a hero or lives long enough to become legacy code that you'll maintain until retirement." The brutal truth no CS degree prepares you for: technical debt is the REAL company debt. Your inheritance won't be wealth—it'll be 15-year-old spaghetti code with comments like "TODO: fix this before release" from 2009.

Content THIS IS A TEST. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. THIS IS ONLY A TEST

Content DON'T SAY Technical debt X Data XEntire IT department XI don't know how this works X Deprecated SAY Iterative design process V Big Data Fullstack Dev Uses advanced algorithms Tried and tested