Be the Garbage Man of your team Alex Kogon Dima Kovalenko
Let’s talk about Garbage
My first job
My second job Manual testing
No one wants this job!
Solution Perl script
Final Thoughts Frustration is good Automation is good New skills are good
When we do things right, no one knows we exist!
How I learned to be good by doing everything bad
Case Study 1: University Work
Blackboard Coding Short ugly variable names Lots of theory Lots of coding, little compiling (or testing!)
Result?
Start Over! Start small, compile continuously Test all the time, even the smallest things Code with the debugger!
Times they are a… vs
Case Study 2: Reengineering Old Code