{"id":5501,"date":"2012-07-31T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:34:16","slug":"how-intuit-manages-10-million-lines-of-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/how-intuit-manages-10-million-lines-of-code\/","title":{"rendered":"How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/article\/print?articleId=240003694&amp;siteSectionName=tools\">J.D. Hildebrand and Andrew Binstock<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4315578\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/article\/print?articleId=240003694&amp;siteSectionName=tools\"><p>Burt is devoting significant resources to code quality this year. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve sent multiple teams of five developers into the Coverity logs,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They track down the warnings and fix hundreds and hundreds of minor coding issues. We&rsquo;re cleaning up little things that have been there forever. The goal is to ship a release with zero defects.&rdquo; This isn&rsquo;t just a matter of tools, Burt acknowledges. Team and management support are essential because they must remain committed to QA every day. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter what tools you use,&rdquo; Burt says. &ldquo;If your team doesn&rsquo;t support it, if they&rsquo;re focused on adding features, you&rsquo;re wasting your time. If you don&rsquo;t want to use a tool like Coverity to track down defects, that&rsquo;s fine&mdash;don&rsquo;t use it. But if you say you want it, then you&rsquo;ve got to commit. The payoff in code quality is tremendous.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Multiple teams of five just to clean up code? That&rsquo;s quite the contrast with Apple&rsquo;s app teams.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Hildebrand and Andrew Binstock (via Hacker News): Burt is devoting significant resources to code quality this year. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve sent multiple teams of five developers into the Coverity logs,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They track down the warnings and fix hundreds and hundreds of minor coding issues. We&rsquo;re cleaning up little things that have been there forever. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14777,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions\/14777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}