[dmorgan81]

I miss working at a place where that was encouraged. Now if I do that the testers complain that it’s not in scope for the ticket and to split the changes into another ticket with a separate test plan. The rot thus continues.

[hinkley]

I think this is about when I discovered zone defense for performance optimization. QA doesn’t want to chase your code changes halfway across the codebase, and that’s fair. At some point it starts looking like you’re changing things just to change them, even if it ends up being a few percent better.

But if you limit yourself to one part of the interaction, they don’t get as mad. A dozen changes in the signup system piss them off less than five changes across the app.