Sadomasochistic Software Development
A couple of weeks ago I was reading a nice article from Coding Horror ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/what-is-modern-software-development.html) about "Modern Software Development". Its a well worth reading.
The idea is simple: How a good software team is?
Ill add that during the last months I have participated in a dozen of technical interviews. And the truth is that some things scared me.
Let me tell you some things I have found from candidates:
Almost no one worked in a team with any kind of automated deployment process.
Less than 20% worked in a team with Continuous Integration.
Lots of them tracked bugs in a-la-email way or spredsheets.
Almost none of them with quality assurance plan.
Please, men. Do something.
- Mavenizing a project takes minutes. Ok, a day in worst case. And there are other options there: ant, Gradle.
- Setting up a Jenkins instance takes just a couple of hours.
- Installing and integrating a repo manager like Artifactory is a matter of clicks.
- Bugzilla is easy to set up and use.
Oh, and all of them are FREE.
So, why the heck is this so common?
