Work Experience vs Learned Experience

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Second, after 12 years of development experience, I have yet to work in an environment with good testing discipline. Everyone will ask you about your unit test experience, and then you see your code base, and you see how badly they maintain their tests.

OOP code?

 

[Cicero]

I was about to get an interview for a company in Dublin, but the ####ing recruiter .
We were speaking for a month and everything went great, up until he asked me if I have TDD experience.
Is it such a massive pain to not have TDD experience??? I had every single thing on the job spec beside that.
The guy just said, no... the company that he is recruiting for, Verizon; is big on TDD.

Yeah, recruiters are just like that, the majority simply don't understand any type of development.

Its mainly why I really try to go direct if I can, use sites like Glassdoor. If you use recruiters you must be prepared to miss out on a few, or ghosted even.

 

[Ancalagon]

OOP code?

Yes, I've only ever worked in OOP environments.

To clarify - everyone does some unit testing and some do more unit testing than others. But, none of the companies that I have ever worked for have done as much unit testing as you would think based on the interview questions they ask you.

 

[[)roi(]]

Yes, I've only ever worked in OOP environments.

To clarify - everyone does some unit testing and some do more unit testing than others. But, none of the companies that I have ever worked for have done as much unit testing as you would think based on the interview questions they ask you.

It's expected; OOP by design is not easy to ensure adequate test coverage, even DI with mocks is a bad substitute. To do TDD or XP properly requires far less OOP.