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From: "Przemysław Wojnowski" <esperanto@cumego.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: burden of maintainance
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:34:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560D60A1.4090909@cumego.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560CEA6A.9000907@online.de>

> as the burden of maintainance was mentioned: from reading the
> bug-reports got the impression, a more strict test-regime might reduce
> that.
>
> If a bug shows up, the first question should be: how it could survive
> the tests?

+1

In previous project I joined a team that couldn't do any release in 4
years. I've introduced automated tests and refactoring among other
things and after 2 years we were releasing 4 times a year, with 3 times
less defects, found much sooner in release cycle and they were easier
to fix.

Some people here work in academia so maybe don't have such experiences,
but in software industry automated tests are a standard. Projects
without (or with weak) tests are replaced with those having strong
tests.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-01  8:10 burden of maintainance Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 18:46   ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 19:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 20:18       ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 20:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 13:54       ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-10-02 14:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 17:18           ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-02 18:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 18:47               ` joakim
2015-10-02 19:16               ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-02 20:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 19:28               ` Chad Brown
2015-10-02  7:51   ` Helmut Eller
2015-10-02  8:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02  8:56       ` Helmut Eller
2015-10-02  8:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 11:46         ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-02 11:58   ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-02 13:14     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-10-02 13:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 15:00       ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 15:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 17:19           ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 18:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 18:54               ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 20:39                 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-03  6:53                   ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-03  7:31                     ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-03  1:38             ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-03  0:38       ` Eric Ludlam
2015-10-02 23:24     ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-10-03  6:42       ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-10-03  7:00         ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-10-03  7:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 16:34 ` Przemysław Wojnowski [this message]
2015-10-02 11:25   ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-02 12:27     ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-02 14:53       ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-02 16:56         ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-03  1:35     ` Richard Stallman

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