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Coding practices at MAANG companies versus startups

Software Engineering Unlocked

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The Biggest Bottleneck in Software Testing

The biggest bottleneck I think of the software in terms of feature velocity is tests. If we had automated tests we could just run them on every commit and find out very very quickly if we broke something whereas like if it has to go to a tester and then the tester reports back we can only afford to do that more than once every few weeks. So there's a long turnaround where it's like okay this broke what was what change broke it and so that is this oh my goodness yeahYeah It hasn't been a strong push for us to like automate everything but I think as the as that we add more features that's it necessarily makes it more complicated to test, which pushes us more

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