Timeline for How to initiate unit testing when you're the grunt?
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| Jun 4, 2023 at 3:07 | comment | added | radarbob | Know your bosses and culture. Nascent testing can survive in a primitive yet tolerant culture but not a vindictive boss. Ive experienced both on different teams in the same organization. With the psychopath boss you are the target and testing is just one potential avenue for abuse. If there are no overt punitive actions by now I'd say proceed. | |
| May 21, 2023 at 2:19 | comment | added | tageta72 | In the time since asking, I've been able to get a brief conversation on maintainability with the middle-rank senior dev. It turns out he isn't actually opposed to testing, just doesn't believe he has time for it. That said, I feel like my rapport with the head of the company is falling fast, and he actually does oppose maintenance work on the whole. Lately I find myself internally opposing just about everything he does with the code, and on rare occasions I dare to suggest a decision would cause problems. My coding tasks are being cut to the barest and most mundane, probably won't be long. | |
| Mar 11, 2023 at 10:03 | history | answered | JacquesB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |