I worked in a heavily regulated industry. Everything required a manual test. Let’s say you have an employee ID that is 10 digits long which they use to log in. You had to have some else (couldn’t be the developer) to write a series of tests, get those tests approved by 5 people(with specific titles) then a third person to execute the test, then the second person had to write a report saying it all passed, then that report had to be approved by the same 5 people.

That typically wasn’t the delay. The delay was to execute the tests we needed to stop production. That typically was a 6 week wait(unless urgent for “reasons”) and changes like “I will drop scrap by 83%” was typically told wait till July 4th or Christmas breaks. Why? Because production would be down for 3-4 days typically. Someone had to start the system, ok no entry produces error, executor and developer have to sign a physical paper, restart the whole system, now an entry of 1 digit produces an error, sign the form, repeat for all digit quantities up to 9, repeat for all digit quantities up to the choosen value(based on severity if an issue occurred), 2 people sign for each one, system restarted between each. If you had say an enter button and a cancel button each had to be checked for each quantities of digits. Oh but wait what if someone just types there name… Now repeat everything for alphabet values… What if someone does combination, more tests, more restarts, more signing.

Reports easily surpassed 1000 pages, no one really had time to check all that so I saw so many missed signatures and missed tests. I asked the “senior validation expert” can I just automate a lot of these tests using unit tests and attach a computer generated report of all tests passing and the source code of the tests? " the response I got was" what’s a unit test? "they still don’t use any of them to my knowledge.

Ahh, ok yeah makes sense

I don’t recognize the name, what dud facepunch make?

Only reason I can think to do that is to “verify” the data in the pointer is not null/empty and is a valid int???

There are much better ways to do that but I can’t think of any other intent the programmer had.

I saw a talk recently, I can find the video if you like but pretty sure it was the most recent ND conference, where they made the point that a lot of lack of efficiency in modern code is because of large companies. Basically in alot of cases it’s more important to get a product out ASAP then to care if it was well done. Ok, a poorly written program may cost an extra $10,000 a month to run but if it earns them a million a month and saves 6 months of development time it pays for itself and they can eat the cost.

This seems like the case with renting vdis instead of fixing the program.

I believe so but I don’t remember the exact encryption algorithm and don’t have access to the code anymore.

This was the same place that had a 500 line file named glob_vars.cs which you can guess the content of because “passing around variables cause memory leak issues”.

What were they storing in the linked list?

Am I reading that right, that he printed out the generated sql query?

If so depending on context that may make sense to complain about. A 12 page sql query would be insane, something sounds like their are other issues.

That said I probably wouldn’t go to cto, I would go to manager or a senior dev and ask why it was so complex to get a particular content type. If there were no performance issues or bugs I would just ask out of curiosity.

That’s atleast pretty creative

If you did and it was usable across multiple cnc manufacturers you could make a pretty penny.

Lol, yeah I’ve written g-code from 4 different manufacturers and yeah it’s a new experience each time.

Yeah that’s fucked up. From two perspectives 1. Who ever wrote that library needs money to survive. 2. From the company point of view they wasted WAY more money on the development then the license. Hell if 1 developer spent a day to do it, they paid more than they would for the license

If it makes you feel better at my last company I asked the “senior validation specialist” what the validation path would be for a program which incorporated unit tests.

The answer I got was “what’s a unit test?”

Interesting, I’ll do some further research.

I worked on a laser seam welder which basically was programmed in a mix of g code and I guess vb??

The fun part was variables could only be numbers between 100 to 999. So let’s say you have a sensor and need to verify it’s within a certain range. You could set #525 to 10 and #526 to 20 then say #527 = sensor 1 signal. Now lower down you verify it as if(#525 > #527 || #526 < #527){show error}

Now you could create each variable at the beginning with comment of what it was but then have to keep referring to the top to remind yourself what number was what. Or create the variable at first use so it was closer but now it’s spread across the document.

I went with first case and just printed out the first 2 pages which listed all the variables.

Before you ask, I talked to the guy who wrote the language and made the system many times he confirmed you couldn’t use variable names.

Yeah, that just seems like a recipe for disaster.

I mean… That’s bad but not on the same scale of some of these other issues.

Wait 100 per year total or 100 per seat per year? If it’s per seat I can understand, if it’s total wtf…

That sounds like someone who didn’t understand the purpose of private

What is a sonarqube? I never heard that term before. Could you also provide the names of some software to run them?