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It has been only a year since a part of the major road on Central Coast collapsed in a heavy rain, claiming five lives and only two months since only a miracle prevented even possible worse when part of Woy Woy road was washed away, and we finally know who is responsible for those deaths.

Of course, ladies and gentleman, not surprisingly it is the driver. He was pissed off (0.002 over the limit) and might have possibly smoked “some substance” some time before. Thanks God, we all know that driver simply was drunk and therefore did not notice the gap until very late.

What a bunch of crap, I think. Whole 0.002 over the limit! Did anyone notice any reference on how accurate that blood alcohol test is? But regardless, in the first turn they did not hit the power pole that crossed the road, they did not park in the tree – they drowned in a river of dirty water in the same spot where a road was supposed to be, and, which does not make it any easier for those who really responsible for road collapse, the drainage issue was known well before and the collapse was completely preventable. But nothing has been done. The driver might be drunk but isn’t his and four other people death a bit too severe punishment for not predicting what should and could be prevented?

Living in Australia, we are relatively lucky – we don’t get black ice on the road (awesome feeling of sudden and total loss of control, a fresh change of pants may be required, if you were lucky), we don’t have six months of snowfalls, limiting visibility to tens of meters, the roads are mostly built on rocks instead of swamps, there are still plenty of room for new road (opposed to crowded Europe). The only we need is to build a road and make sure that when rain finally falls, it will go into sewage alone, without taking the asphalt with it. It is as simple as it is and not a rocket science at all – I bet building the house on the slope may be much more challenging than constructing a road. But why the hell things like this still happen? What are they waiting for? For a school bus full of children, sorry, don’t even want to think about that.

They have got their whipping boy, but why should we even care about who to blame? There is nothing we can help them or their families, there is only one question that should be asked – what has been done to stop roads from being flushed away in a country suffering from worst ever drought? Woy Woy road makes me think that very little indeed…

I am very, very frustrated, ladies and gentlemen.

Навеяно предыдущим постом.

А вот скажите мне, коллеги, кто-нибудь вообще использует юнит-тесты при разработке? Имеется в виду нормальный, “почти полный”TDD, когда тестами не покрыто только то, что ими не покрыть, а не “пишем, когда менеджер заставляет”?

P.S. Лично я вообще без юнит-тестов уже писать не могу. Как показывает опыт, стоит предположить, что это настолько просто, что накосячить там просто невозможно, как обязательно отрастает какой-то глупый косяк. Ну,  вроде “if (i=a) {}”. А уж сколько всего можно навылавливать из чужого кода, в котором юнит-тест только один и то только потому, что манагер приказал, я мог бы рассказывать часами.

А именно:

1. Отладчик в VS 2005, который виснет при отладке mixed-mode приложений
2. Аффтараф спагетти-кода на C++, написанного даже не в стиле “C с классами”, а в стиле “в C++ есть классы, но использовать их нихачунибуду патамучта ниасилил”

Аффтарам кода, который в теле цикла удалает элементы из ассоциативного массива, по которому ведется итерация, отдельный пламенный превед.