alt Hacker NewsEvery time something like this has been done on my company I follow up with the question: did anyone watched the code to see if the business logic is the same between the two versions? The answer is: but but but automated testing.
Followup question: did anyone read the automated test suite?
Silence.
The software rewrite is shelved.
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dannyw • today at 9:48 AM
Honest question: does that even remotely matter, or is it an outdated prior? All software has bugs.
The goal and objective is to deliver value for your user/customers; to the speed, reliability, and assurance requirements your market segment expects.
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Why do people doing a rewrite need to have read the tests?
If you have good test coverage, and the tests are reliable, then what's the problem?
If your engineering culture is bad already and you don't have good test coverage or they're flaky or whatever then that is different. If that is the case, it is probably from smart-ass attitudes like yours asking these "clever" rhetorical questions to derail people trying to improve things that led it to be like that. Do everyone a favour and keep your mouth shut and let people fix things.