Great to know that the largest software company in the Western world doesn’t test their release code properly. Any first year CS student learns to write tests that detect a problem this blatant. Fuck Google.
Even fairly basic automated test coverage would almost certainly have caught it. I feel like whether the system starts up properly and enters the main UI (which this update failed to) should be the first thing you test for.
If the reason a company writes buggy software is that they’re big, then they absolutely don’t deserve to be big.
Great to know that the largest software company in the Western world doesn’t test their release code properly. Any first year CS student learns to write tests that detect a problem this blatant. Fuck Google.
I think their exact problem is being too large. that certainly wouldn’t have happened in the early days
Even fairly basic automated test coverage would almost certainly have caught it. I feel like whether the system starts up properly and enters the main UI (which this update failed to) should be the first thing you test for.
If the reason a company writes buggy software is that they’re big, then they absolutely don’t deserve to be big.