The role of engineers in the software factory
The other week, I found a menu button in the wrong place on mobile. Floating around the middle of the page when it should have been anchored to the side. Two things went through my head. First, the disappointment of finding a bug on the weekend. Second, we had things in place to prevent exactly this: a full design system and snapshot tests.
I dispatched the bug fix. It shipped the next day.
Then I dug into why the design system and snapshot tests had let it through. The first answer was simple: Chromatic only snapshotted at desktop width.
Awkward given I spent most of my career working on…
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