Does CTO have to code?

Does CTO have to code?

A CTO of a startup will almost certainly perform some coding due to budgetary constraints. For a larger organisation, the CTO should be less hands on as they need to spend more time on strategy and they should have a head of development who will have day-to-day responsibility for the code and developers.

How do you handle code reviews?

Best Practices for Code Review

1. Review fewer than 400 lines of code at a time.
2. Take your time.
3. Do not review for more than 60 minutes at a time.
4. Set goals and capture metrics.
5. Authors should annotate source code before the review.
6. Use checklists.
7. Establish a process for fixing defects found.

Is it possible to write code without unit testing?

When code is tightly coupled, it can be difficult to unit test. Without creating unit tests for the code that you’re writing, coupling may be less apparent. Writing tests for your code will naturally decouple your code, because it would be more difficult to test otherwise.

What are the best practices for unit testing?

Unit Testing Best Practices. 1 1. Arrange, Act, Assert. Let’s now consider another sort of unit test anatomy. Here, I’m talking about the logical components of a good unit test. The 2 2. One Assert Per Test Method. 3 3. Avoid Test Interdependence. 4 4. Keep It Short, Sweet, and Visible. 5 5. Recognize Test Setup Pain as a Smell.

Do we write unit tests at Hubstaff?

Yes and I’ll tell you why. We write a lot of unit tests at Hubstaff. Testing is something we have taken seriously from day one and as a result it’s a big part of our development culture. If you’ve been on the fence about writing unit tests but haven’t dove in headfirst yet let me tell you why you should.

What makes a test not a unit test?

And, finally, unit tests don’t exercise multiple components of your system and how they act. If you have a console application and you pipe input to it from the command line and test for output, you’re executing an end-to-end system test — not a unit test. Make no mistake — tests that do these things add value.