Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments?

First time accepted submitter sftwrdev97 writes "I have only been doing software development for about 5 years, and worked most of it at one company. I recently switched to a new company and am amazed at the lack of technology used in their development process. In my previous position, we used continuous integration, unit testing, automated regression testing, an industry standard (not open source) in version control, and tried to keep up with the latest tools, Java releases, etc. In the new position, there is no unit or regression testing, no continuous integration, compiled files are moved to the production environment basically by hand and there is no version control on them. The tools we are using have been unsupported for 5-7 years and we are still using old Java. I am just wondering since this is only my second job in the industry, is this the norm for most development environments? Or do most development environments try to keep up on technology or just use what ever gets them by?" What's it like in your neck of the woods?

Comments

Re:Make the software open source!

[BitZtream]

Smoke crack much?

No company who wants to stay in business long term makes any profitable product open source. Open source software is NOT THE PRODUCT of ANY COMPANY ANYWHERE. Of course, you're just being a douche bag troll, but hey, I might as well bite.

And use Ruby on Rails; it's the future.

Smoke crack and do far far too much LSD I see.

I don't mind Hippies, but ignorant hippies too stupid to see past their nose are freaking annoying. Who takes care of you, your mother or father?