[wikidani]

Oh god this resonates so much with what I'm going through right now. I'm on a team that rotates members pretty much every 6 months and have been put in charge of writing unit tests for a series of repositories that I have never seen in my life. I must also add that I had 0 experience with unit testing beyond knowing what the concept is when asked to start testing. Now, I wouldn't be too bothered because it was a sort of learning experience but what was supposed to be a two week task at most has been dragging for a couple of months because they keep adding APIs and other backends which further complicates the issue and, of course the code isn't really unit testable so I have to modify code that I haven't seen before made by people who aren't on the team anymore just to make tests work

All of this to achieve a very arbitrary 80% coverage that's required by business on a few REST APIs that's not even ours!! And don't get me wrong I get the importance of testing but the enphasis on unit testing these days seems ridiculous

[rectang]

> I'm on a team that rotates members pretty much every 6 months and have been put in charge of writing unit tests for a series of repositories that I have never seen in my life. I must also add that I had 0 experience with unit testing beyond knowing what the concept is when asked to start testing.

I don't think the concept of "unit testing" is the main problem here.

[wikidani]

Oh it certainly isn't, but I have always been used to learning on the run and with proper support it wouldn't be such a hassle but I believe that the emphasis they made on unit testing doesn't really help either

[magicalhippo]

> I'm on a team that rotates members pretty much every 6 months

What kind of software do you make?

Where I am, I was still very much learning after 6 months and it wasn't until a year or so before I became really effective.

[wikidani]

It's mostly line of business software and yeah, it took me a year before I got to know the ins and outs of the system so you can absolutely imagine the clusterfuck it is when user acceptance and deployments start coming in