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Other dev won't follow best practices, is this common? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Hello again, I'm in a situation where the one the senior devs on my team just isn't following best practices we laid out in our internal documentation, nor the generally agreed best practices for react; his code works mind you, but as a a team working on a client piece I'm not super comfortable with something so fragile being passed to the client.

He also doesn't like unit testing and only includes minimal smoke tests, often times he writes his components in ways that will break existing unit tests (there is a caveat that one of the components which is breaking is super fragile; he also led the creation of that one.) But then leaves me to fix it during PR approval.

It's weird because I literally went through most of the same training in company with him on best practices and TDD, but he just seems to ignore it.

I'm not super comfortable approving his work, but its functional and I don't want to hold up sprints,but I'm keenly aware that it could make things really messy whenbwe leave and the client begins to handle it on their own.

What are y'alls thoughts on this, is this sort of thing common?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like the story of how I got into CI/CD ….

I was working for a startup, and leadership was amazed at how “productive” this one developer was, changing thousands of files in marathon coding sessions. I realized he knew how to use the refactoring functionality in his IDE. More importantly, I was the QA peon tasked with being first one in every morning to characterize stability before everyone else started working. This guy and his antics made my life miserable.

However, I created build and test automation, and scheduled it nightly (this was before CI was a thing, before we had good tools), so now everyone got emailed the state of the product first thing every morning.

This diva was the only one making changes so all the instabilities were owned by him. Made my life much easier and helped our product get much better. More importantly, it did knock him down a peg, as the side effects of the scope of hos changes became more clear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm that dude on my team when it comes to SQL. Everyone on my team (in my whole company, it seems) follows zero formatting standards when writing SQL code. Nothing qualified, no indentation, no query hints or anything to optimize. People just get their sprocs and views into a state of "good enough" and just hit submit.