shadow, let me get this straight. You are saying that avoiding tests in order to not find bugs that tests would reveal before deployment in order for the users to "find the bugs" for you, is the way for developers to avoid being lazy?
I don't buy that skimping on pre-deployment QA speeds up innovation, and I don't think that quality only matters in life and death scenarios like the plane problem you mentioned. The world is facing the opposite problem. Most software, products, and services, barely even work. I'm constantly getting annoyed by things not working quite right, or not as well as I would like them to. You know what would be truly innovative? Products and code that actually works!
What is more, I feel that true innovation is what emerges when you insist on extreme quality. If we all started enforcing things that are currently impractical, like 100% code coverage, what would happen is we would innovate to make achieving that less painful.
shadow, let me get this straight. You are saying that avoiding tests in order to not find bugs that tests would reveal before deployment in order for the users to "find the bugs" for you, is the way for developers to avoid being lazy?
I don't buy that skimping on pre-deployment QA speeds up innovation, and I don't think that quality only matters in life and death scenarios like the plane problem you mentioned. The world is facing the opposite problem. Most software, products, and services, barely even work. I'm constantly getting annoyed by things not working quite right, or not as well as I would like them to. You know what would be truly innovative? Products and code that actually works!
What is more, I feel that true innovation is what emerges when you insist on extreme quality. If we all started enforcing things that are currently impractical, like 100% code coverage, what would happen is we would innovate to make achieving that less painful.
I don't think you fully understand the hacker method at all. You can enforce standards without having to write and maintain thousands of tests.