Jakob Miksch

idea regarding #code #review:
intentionally adding #bugs into #code to check if the #reviewer discovers them.
if the reviewer does not find them, then their #review is questionable.
of course the added bugs should be removed before merging ;-)

I am wondering if a concept like this already exists ...
#codequality #softwareengineering #quality #software #git #pullrequest #mergerequest

7:21pmPhanpy
Show threadEven Rouault2h ago
@jakobmiksch Likely, but always ask for consent beforehand. Realizing you've served as a guinea's pig to someone else social experiment always live a bad taste. Anyway the outcome is known: if you try hard enough, you'll succeed in introducing bugs not found during review. Review is not about preventing all bugs to be introduced but catching at least a few of them..
Show threadRoman Karavia2h ago
@jakobmiksch I only know of a similar concept of a PhD thesis where someone wrote something like "if you have read this far, come ask me for a chocolate bar at the thesis defense". I believe nobody asked for the chocolate...
Show threadHarald1h ago

@jakobmiksch

I thought you put some blatantly silly stuff in, to avoid the more subtle discussions on whether to throw or to log or whether enum or int or whether make it immutable or not ...🤣