[LRUG] [JOB] CTO and business partenership

Kevin Monk kevin at mangoswiss.com
Thu May 17 03:42:32 PDT 2012


> 
> How do you know it ain't broke?

I don't, other than customers telling me.

I'm in agreement. We need to improve our testing as it's starting to creak.


On 17 May 2012, at 11:30, Joseph Wilk wrote:

> On 17/05/2012 11:01, Michael Pavling wrote:
>> On 17 May 2012 10:29, Kevin Monk<kevin at mangoswiss.com>  wrote:
>>> To paraphrase, 'If it ain't broke, don't test it.".
>> Unfortunately this turns into: 'If it ain't broke, don't ship it." ;-)
> 
> Oh something about testing that I can mindless bluncheon my way into.
> 
> How do you know it ain't broke?
> 
> "If no one uses it, don't test it."
> 
> If people are using it, you are testing it even if you have no tests.
> Its just the people who are your customers are doing your testing for you.
> That's very useful, but sometimes customers can react badly to doing your testing for you.
> And sometimes those sneaky bugs might do something that really upsets our customer.
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