Erik Gern

Writer, web developer, and professional goofball

Dec 2015

Awk-ward Error Checking

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Emma W. was hired on by BerkTech’s QA department in preparation for a major code rewrite. A Russian company had purchased a thousand copies of BerkTech’s emponymous software package, but as it only supported English, it would require a substantial localization project to support Russian.

After Emma started, it didn’t take long for her to notice some common patterns in her unit tests.