{"id":627,"date":"2013-11-20T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2013-11-20T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:50:14","slug":"joel-test-for-my-current-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/627\/joel-test-for-my-current-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Test for my current project"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Do you use source control? &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>Can you make a build in one step? &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>Do you make daily builds? &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>Do you have a bug database? &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>Do you fix bugs before writing new code? &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>Do you have an up-to-date schedule? &#8211; no <\/li>\n<li>Do you have a spec? &#8211; no<\/li>\n<li>Do programmers have quiet working conditions? &#8211; no<\/li>\n<li>Do you use the best tools money can buy? &#8211; yes-ish<\/li>\n<li>Do you have testers? &#8211; Not convinced &#8216;tester&#8217; applies in the sense that is meant by the Joel Test, but we have a QA team; most test code is written by programmers though.<\/li>\n<li>Do new candidates write code during their interview? &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>Do you do hallway usability testing? &#8211; no, but we don&#8217;t create a UI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Going over this, I do have a feeling that the Joel test is directed primarily at things that users see and touch; with that not being the case, the projects I work on lack some of what is deemed as important, specifically because &#8220;hallway usability testing&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem to apply the same way and &#8216;testers&#8217; can&#8217;t really help as much as I think might otherwise apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use source control? &#8211; yes Can you make a build in one step? &#8211; yes Do you make daily builds? &#8211; yes Do you have a bug database? &#8211; yes Do you fix bugs before writing new code? &#8211; yes Do you have an up-to-date schedule? &#8211; no Do you have a spec? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}