[Interest] What don't you like about Qt?

[Roland Hughes]

On 09/28/2016 12:25 PM, interest-request at qt-project.org wrote:
>> Don't you have unit tests?
> Yes. But which is better, to be forced to use an inherently error-prone
> language (JavaScript) and rely on unit tests to clean up the mess, or to
> use a robust modern language (C++) and have less bugs to find and fix in
> the first place?
This entire concept of TDD is the greatest failure of Agile. Relying on 
a developer who read the story wrong to write a test proving his/her 
incorrect interpretation of the story works perfectly via automated 
testing just so managers can tell people they run X-thousand tests on 
the code base each time a change is made...So what? Virtually all 
X-thousand are worthless.

The reason I'm so far behind on this list is that once again I've been 
called into an Agile shop to work on a project which is currently a 
train wreck and I'm spending 7 days per week trying to drag it out of 
the path of the impending plane crash before both roll down the hill 
into a pre-school. Agile is _completely_ to blame for the state of this 
project. You cannot hope to start a successful project which involves 
both a messaging system to external devices AND a database without first 
writing and vetting the following:

BRD, SRD, SAD & SSD

For those unfamiliar with the proper way to do things:
BRD = Business Requirements Document
SRD = System Requirements Document
SAD = System Architecture Document
SSD = System Specification Document

When you work off nothing but stories you are hacking on the fly and if 
your coders aren't system architect level people, not just one, but each 
and every one of them, you end in failure. You end up with a developer 
choosing to store data in JSON files for a device taking dozens, some 
times hundreds of readings per second, appending the new reading to the 
end of a JSON array and writing the entire file back to an SD card. 
Without the event->message->device response->message->event life cycle 
completely mapped out in a solid document you end up with a dozen 
programmers working from a dozen different stories doing it a dozen 
different ways so eventually you end up with an embedded system slamming 
hundreds of requests onto a message bus for data it only needed to get 
once at startup.
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