Who broke the build? Bring on the Coat of Shame!!

Question: What should happen when the build breaks?

The easy andwer is everyone should jump and fix it as soon as possible, not later, not tomorrow, NOW!

OK, so you find what’s wrong, fix it, create any tests you need to make sure it soesn’t happen again, and then you Bring on the Coat of Shame!

Development should never be a blame game, but a bit of humiliation never hurt anyone…If you check in code that breaks the build you get to wear the coat.

Now if we were in a blame culture we’d make you go to the pub wearing it and buy everyone a round of drinks wouldn’t we?

The Coat of Shame!

And the coat? No, not mine but it really does belong to someone where I’m working now!