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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Global Changes Must Be Discussed With The Whole Team First</h1> |
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2019-07-31 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/team/">#team</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/changes/">#changes</a> |
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<p>So you got tired of bad tests and decided it is a good idea to add some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing">fuzz |
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testing</a> tool. Before you do add it in |
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the main branch, you <em>have</em> to discuss it with your team.</p> |
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<p>It's mind-bogging that some people think something it's so good that they |
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don't need to discuss with the whole team about it; they simply do. They don't |
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seem to care that people have their workflows and changing something would |
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break them. But hey, I've seen it so many times it is not even fun.</p> |
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<p>And let me clear here: You need to discuss it with the <em>whole</em> team, not just |
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some of it (excluding people on vacations, 'cause you don't want to call them |
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just to tell them something will change). Worse: Don't discuss only with those |
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that will agree with you; you may not have seen all the problems those changes |
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will inflict on the other devs workflows but, by bringing that with those that |
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may not agree with you, you may gain some more insights on what could go |
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wrong.</p> |
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<p>Also, focus on what would be the gains and the loses. "We'll get better tests, |
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but you'll have to take a bit more care on the way you write tests" is a good |
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explanation, specially if you show the changes people will have to do in |
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future tests. Also also, notice that I said <em>future</em> tests: if you want to |
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implement something new, you <em>must</em> be sure it won't require everyone getting |
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out of their way to make your idea work -- don't make people rewrite tests |
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'cause they will break; don't make the other devs reformat their code 'cause |
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you decided, alone, to add a linter to your CI with your own rules; don't make |
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people worry about unwritten tests 'cause you decided it would be a good idea |
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to add a code formatting tool and that would make your coverage tool think |
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they are changing some unrelated piece of code that wasn't untested before.</p> |
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<p>Don't be a jerk thinking you know more than your whole team.</p> |
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