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LinkedIn Is Open Sourcing Their Testing Frameworks (github.io)

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-mean-I-want-to-join-your-professional-network dept.

destinyland writes: LinkedIn is open sourcing their testing frameworks, and sharing details of their revamped development process after their latest app required a year and over 250 engineers. Their new paradigm? "Release three times per day, with no more than three hours between when code is committed and when that code is available to members," according to a senior engineer on LinkedIn's blog. This requires a three-hour pipeline where everything is automated, from committing code to releasing it into production, along with automated analyses and testing. "Holding ourselves to this constraint ensures we won't revert to using manual validation to certify our releases."

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  1. Just remember by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Share your email login credentials with them. Much appreciated.

    What is amazing is how many people do just that.

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  2. Linked in Open sources by invictusvoyd · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Their Spam framework.

  3. Re:Senior Engineer? by rednip · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that you lost the war for 'what engineer means' when 'train engineer' became common lexicon a long time ago. Perhaps you could take the better fight that 'Software Architects aren't really Architects'.

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  4. "Open Sourcing Testing Frameworks"? by Irate+Engineer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My buzzspeak is a little rusty, but this sounds suspiciously like "Beat monkeys to code faster, send code out the door without testing, and just let the users figure it out". Did something get lost in translation?

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  5. Neglecting to care by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would rather eat rats than join LinkedIn.

    250 developers working a project for a year at any other company would cause me to be curious about what that project is. In this case I have no interest in ever knowing.

    Releasing three times a day with three hour _ceiling_ to "ship it" is only possible while harboring extreme levels of disregard and contempt for your users. Refreshing to see LinkedIn's corporate philosophy so well represented in everything they do.