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Came back to learn you have job security (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also, all the automated tests were commented out.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 25 points 3 months ago

Checking the ci logs for the past week, like:

86 test suites passed successfully
    ❌ 0 failures
    ✅ 0 success
    🤷‍♂️ 1785 skipped

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ive heard of stories where people would have an imposed test coverage percentage requirement... and they would just have a single dummy method that printed "." to the console thousands of times. They then have a single test for that one method, and whenever their codebase grows to big, they add more lines to it so that the dummy method has enough lines to meet the test coverage requirement.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Percentage of lines covered by tests is such a terrible metric.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All metrics are terrible when used for anything other than objective analysis

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, every metric that can be applied automatically ends up becoming useless if people are incentivized to break it

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Relevant xkcd

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

There's always one. Thanks for finding it ❤️