Comments on: Ignoring Build Problems http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/15/ignoring-build-problems.html Mark's Weblog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:23:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: mwshead http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/15/ignoring-build-problems.html#comment-510 Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:08:13 -0500 http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/15/ignoring-build-problems.html#comment-510 The lava lamps I got were and off brand (HotRock?) from Wal-Mart and they aren't really that hot. You can hold your hand on them without problems, so I don't think they are any more of a fire hazard than a regular desk lamp. I have a green and red lamp. They both come on during a build. After the build it leaves the red one one if it failed and the green one stays on if it passed. The lava lamps I got were and off brand (HotRock?) from Wal-Mart and they aren’t really that hot. You can hold your hand on them without problems, so I don’t think they are any more of a fire hazard than a regular desk lamp.

I have a green and red lamp. They both come on during a build. After the build it leaves the red one one if it failed and the green one stays on if it passed.

]]> by: Ed Gibbs http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/15/ignoring-build-problems.html#comment-509 Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:02:47 -0500 http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/15/ignoring-build-problems.html#comment-509 Interestingly enough I just turned off build for this project. It was a 3 year effort that finally got killed by the business today. So you're right the failing tests didn't matter, but they were the sign of a larger problem. Essentially functional tests are a lot more difficult to maintain and our system was very difficult to unit test because much of the code was buried in a Enterprise rules engine. So you have a lava lamp? I haven't gone there yet because of fire code issues and HR. Not exactly a startup environment. Interestingly enough I just turned off build for this project. It was a 3 year effort that finally got killed by the business today. So you’re right the failing tests didn’t matter, but they were the sign of a larger problem. Essentially functional tests are a lot more difficult to maintain and our system was very difficult to unit test because much of the code was buried in a Enterprise rules engine.

So you have a lava lamp? I haven’t gone there yet because of fire code issues and HR. Not exactly a startup environment.

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