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QuestionI'm fairly old fashioned at times ... but should I embrace unit testing? Pin
OriginalGriff27-Jan-22 5:57
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Marc Clifton27-Jan-22 7:50
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Davyd McColl27-Jan-22 21:44
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Davyd McColl27-Jan-22 22:32
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Davyd McColl27-Jan-22 23:05
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That's a team problem then. Just like how git can't police people into making concise, responsible commits in the right places, and wasn't designed to, that tool is to warn people who actually care when stuff breaks. If your cowboys don't care, that's a whole other issue that needs to be figured out, because they're creating work for other people.

That doesn't mean that an api cannot change - it means that the people involved have to do so responsibly - eg by providing overloads, or at least trying to keep existing signatures as intact as possible.

I'm not a fan of it, but perhaps you need something like gated checkins. I'd much rather have the team chat where we all come to an agreement on how we're going to work together though. You need to sell this idea of improving team cohesion up the chain - because right now, the cowboys are costing the company money when other people have to deal with their fallout.
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You will be doing things
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