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Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)


Fear makes you a worse programmer

Before I start, Ryan Kennedy linked me to this slide deck of a presentation he gave called Fear Driven Development which I absolutely loved, and I think you should look at it. (in particular the fantastic Kelsey Gilmore-Innis, who has new-to-me things to say about better processes for testing code every time I talk to her) QA environments where breaking things is totally allowed and encouraged deploys that go out a little bit at a time the ability to roll back a deploy easily QA teams, whose job it is to exhaustively test software tools that will email you if your program throws exceptions

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