The Difference Between IT and Software Engineering
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@EddieJennings said in The Difference Between IT and Software Engineering:
@wirestyle22 said in The Difference Between IT and Software Engineering:
@EddieJennings Actually a test environment is usually not even worth it because it requires so much $ to keep up to date and mirror what you have. It can be, but usually isn't.
This sounds odd to me. Especially since devs likely (as our's do) have MSDN subscriptions in order to have access to Visual Studio (notwithstanding the free edition), so MSDN would grant the Windows server licenses necessary to license the test environment. Yes -- licensing isn't the only cost associated with creating a testing environment
If you're testing code its different. I'm talking from an SMB perspective as well
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@EddieJennings said in The Difference Between IT and Software Engineering:
This might be going down a rabbit hole, but how about test environments? I imagine IT would install and configure the test severs which mimic production environment (and from what's mentioned before, deploy an application build created by the devs to that test environment. I also know that a dev would have a local environment (Visual Studio + IIS express + SQL server) where they're doing their day-to-day coding and testing. Would setting up that environment on their machine be the task of IT?
Test can obvioulsy be handled by either, but it's only sensible for IT to do it. If IT doesn't do it, how much are you really testing?
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@EddieJennings If IT doesn't do it then there could be environmental factors that weren't set up identically to prod that could influence who code runs, thus creating bugs and wasted time once the code hits production.
