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LinkedIn Is Open Sourcing Their Testing Frameworks (github.io)
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."
Can we please stop with this engineer crap for describing code monkeys and hipster rubyists? Developers and programmers is fine. Even IT professionals is ok. But engineers they most certainly are not.
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?
From the bugs in groups, and the vast drop in traffic to the same, I think you hit the nail on the head! They hit the nail with their head...
Because they are a fucked company, they know it, and they need to do something to get more publicity.