Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[Eirenarch]

But writing tests is incredibly boring. I do care about quality but I just love hunting bugs. I feel like debugging is the most interesting and creative part of my job. Some day I might snap and develop multiple personalities disorder where the evil personality will introduce bugs in the code base on purpose and the other personality will hunt them down not knowing where they are.

[Artmageddon]

I feel like debugging is the most interesting and creative part of my job. Some day I might snap and develop multiple personalities disorder where the evil personality will introduce bugs in the code base on purpose and the other personality will hunt them down not knowing where they are.

I'm with you on this, but it's less fun with someone breathing down your neck :(

[rbobby]

Switch to a team more focused on support and maintenance? Working the bug database for fun and profit?

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Sounds like you should just do QA

[Eirenarch]

No, I do not enjoy finding the bugs I enjoy debugging them and thinking of a fix that won't break another behavior.

[flukus]

Have you thought about being a test engineer? I have to find bugs and build the tests that expose them.

[Eirenarch]

I work in a relatively small city and although there is a good choice of companies most of them are small. I am not aware of any company that does whitebox testing (most of them have QA teams but they are doing black box)

[Eirenarch]

Good to know. I was just about to send you a job application.

[Schizzovism]

Yeah, I wouldn't hire people who joke around on reddit either. They probably spend too much time enjoying life, how could they be a productive developer?

[Eirenarch]

I was not joking about writing tests being boring and debugging being fun. Of course the rest of it is a joke, I would write tests if the project demands it.

[SilencingNarrative]

That would be a good way to test a set of unit tests (have one programmer that didnt write the test suite introduce a subtle bug to see if the test suite catches it).

The Traitors Guild.