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I no longer look forward to updates.
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It seems to me that some software is actually getting worse, and that this is a more recent trend.
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Why does this happen? I don’t know, but my own bias suggests that it’s because there’s less focus on regression testing. Many of the problems I see look like regression bugs to me. A good engineering team could have caught them with automated regression tests, but these days, it seems as though many teams rely on releasing often and then letting users do the testing.The problem with that approach, however, is that if you don’t have good automated tests, fixing one regression may resurrect another.
Every time I see a new update, I think: “I wonder what will break after this update” and postpone them as much as I can. Software updates shouldn’t cause anxiety. But they do these days…
They used to cause anxiety in the past as well. But there was a window where - at least I - didn’t fear them. Main reason why I still think they are necessary are security patches. But I do fear updates due to their tendency in breaking things.
Yes, software is getting worse, as education and corporate are getting worse.
Where employees needed to know what they actually were doing in the past, now is mostly auto-filled by IDE’s and languages that target other languages, so employees need to know less and less fundamentals.
Which in turn means when a low-level error occurs, either no one knows how to fix it, or the corporate refuses to hire someone who knows how to fix it because they’re “over-qualified”, and therefore would “cost them too much”.
Do you think complexity and scope stayed the same? Or did it increase? Do people have to know more now to have the same level of depth and surrounding knowledge?
