Ever Since the Appearance of TDD
Comments have started been replaced from a separate unit test. At least this happens in theory….
After numerous head-wall-banging sessions though, even at large companies where they tend to have a more standardized method of coding with large codebases we often find many, many good gems.
Commenting is art! Trolling while commenting is a given!
Have a look below and for crying out loud laugh until you break 🙂
Personal Favorites :
Dear maintainer:
Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, please increment the following counter as a warning to the next guy:
total_hours_wasted_here = 42 And another one, which by the way I have said it many times :
When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing Now, God only knows
On a relevant note while browsing source code of battle.net
Look what I found!
And last but not least, from the company’s large codebase I currently work at:
**********WARNING****************** *********GRANDE KOLODAXTYLO *************** To solve issue with serializing data coming in different parts of the response array
Kolodaxtylo in greek means “the middle finger”.
And some dummy user names / passenger names in unit tests :
Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and in general names from Star Wars Universe.
But also Greek ones:
Lelos Observes
A sidenote here, working primarily on a travel agency booking site, while we all devs use this name for our tests, it turns out that this guy “Lelos Observes” has “traveled” virtually 2-3 times around the world…
Mitros Karamitros, Loula Karaloula and Loulis Kouklentes