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How do I convince my company to add tests for FE? (self.programming)

submitted 11 months ago by nitefox to c/[email protected]

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We are in a very funny situation where I just spent two weeks fixing FE bugs and there are so many left. I asked to add integration tests but the answer was “no”, cause we can’t test the UI and all of that.

So the proposed solution was to be more careful, except I’m careful but testing whole website parts or the whole website is not feasible. What can I do?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Who's saying this? Other programmers or management?

Programmers might listen to reason, but might be very set in their ways. Some that don't want it might even sabotage it and write crap tests that don't do shit like test that true == true or skip all of them. Know your crowd. If it's a crowd that like copying the latest and greatest, quote something google or facebook did or said. If they're old-school, find some old-ass programmer that loves tests.

Management listen to money unless they're incompetent. Calculate the time it took to resolve certain bugs, estimate the hourly-rate of people, compare that to how much time it takes to write tests, but make it clear that not all bugs can be caught. Maybe even find an article or blog from some manager/CTO/technical lead at another company talking about how bug count dropped or something.

If it's a free for all, add tests yourself.

If they're overbearing, bro, look for another job. A bad culture fit is a bad culture fit and there's no need to fight that. It'll be a learning experience too: not everybody can be convinced and not every company is for you.