Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
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Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
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Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
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#3No matter the industry, it sucks to have someone managing by dashboard. In classic post modernism, the signifier replaces the signified. If anything, it’s a great signal to the employee that it’s time to start looking elsewhere.
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#4The root issue is the superior not having a clue. Sonar in this case, is sadly enabling this type of superior to be even more harmful, not to the developers only, but to the actual business of the company.
And Sonar is far from being alone in this. JIRA is the most glaring example I can think of. Growing companies implement cargo-culted tools without understanding the needs and requirements, and let themselves drift into templates or "best practices" that are not relevant or beneficial to their own operations as-is, resulting in a sum of frustrations, whose impact on the work and the teams they acknowledge only way too late.
The care you need to inject not only in your tools, but how they are apprehended by both your customers and their primary users (which may have very different, if not opposed, perspectives on how/why to use it), from pricing, to documentation, to use-cases...
This is especially very complex when your tool answers to a regulation requirement, because it's very often received as a constraining/oppressing "solution", rather than an enabling one: it may be confortable to you as a seller, and confortable to your customer, but it may also be a counter-sale point to your (customer's) users that will impact future consideration when they become purchasing agents themselves.
Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
#5No matter the industry, it sucks to have someone managing by dashboard. In classic post modernism, the signifier replaces the signified. If anything, it’s a great signal to the employee that it’s time to start looking elsewhere.
Are flies that evolve to look like bees to ward off predators postmodern? It just seems like game theory.
Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
#6We use sonar at work and this resonates so much with me.
Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
#7No matter the industry, it sucks to have someone managing by dashboard. In classic post modernism, the signifier replaces the signified. If anything, it’s a great signal to the employee that it’s time to start looking elsewhere.
Are flies that evolve to look like bees to ward off predators postmodern? It just seems like game theory.
No, that is convergent evolution. A more apt comparison would be selection of secondary sexual traits that no longer correspond to fitness.
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#8I'm not sure how much value sonar adds where I work (dotnet). It enormously affects build times, and I've yet to experience a single true positive in 2 years (apart from the code coverage dashboard). The amount of MRR you can generate by vaguely being related to mitigating vulnerabilities is incredible.
Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
#9Sonarqube issues were the warning for the SOC-report powered issue scanners that have arrived more recently.
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#10Sonar doesn't seem to really work in my limited experience. It adds a lot of of time to builds, at least in the cases I've seen, while there are alternate linters or code quality tools capable of doing the same at a fraction of the time. Build times and development speed matter!... They matter a lot. You need a quick feedback loop.