"The amount of support caused by failing pieces of code far exceeded the time it would have taken to test the code properly, period. The agility we gained from our test coverage really helped us refactor big chunks of code quickly."
People ask whether it makes sense to spend time on TDD or automated tests in a startup situation. This right here is why.
I don't agree and I don't understand their dichotomy. That whole paragraph is very confusing and lacks context.
Did they have good test coverage from the get go or not? If they did, why was so much support caused by failing code? If not, it's easy in hindsight to say this but there's no guarantee your tests would have caught all such support issues.
Good for you guys! This is another example of a product that I would never have thought of producing.
How spread out is your business? It seems to me that a lot of larger conferences in the US are held in the LA or Vegas areas. Might you try to locate a US partner near those centers? Or is your business more spread out than that?
In that case, it should be Memphis TN. Large FedEx hub, and maybe you could partner with the Memphis College of Arts. I know around where I live certain trade type schools (Is an Arts school a trade school?) are all over having partnerships with companies so that their students can get real world experience.
Good job, but you have almost 300.000 lines of code according to your GitHub commit stats, why is that damn large? It is almost equivalent to Linux 1.2 kernel code in 1995.
OP here. Shameless use of the exposure... we are looking for a printing partner in the US. If you are in the US and know a high-quality and trustworthy print shop let us know!
"The amount of support caused by failing pieces of code far exceeded the time it would have taken to test the code properly, period. The agility we gained from our test coverage really helped us refactor big chunks of code quickly."
People ask whether it makes sense to spend time on TDD or automated tests in a startup situation. This right here is why.