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by omnicognate 1616 days ago
You have colleagues who spend a week investigating a bug and it doesn't occur to them reproduce it under a debugger (as opposed to it not being debuggable for some reason, eg. not reproducible locally)? Really? And this happens at least monthly?

It's a curious observation. If it's true your work environment must be very different to mine.

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Government. I gave it a year but I'm moving on soon (email in profile). Unit tests are a recent innovation they are proud of, I don't have to heart to tell them that they are all actually integration tests and don't really have the sort of assertions that would catch much of anything.