Came here to say this. I was sorta shocked at the hubris in the title, then I read the article and was disappointed by the rife subjectivity.
The Joel test is not “feels outdated” and there was no evidence presented to support the claim.
The Joel test is not “feels outdated” and there was no evidence presented to support the claim.
A 12/12 on the Joel test doesn't mean you're a great company, it means you're not a total garbage fire.
I'm not going to presume I can come up with a whole new test on the spot, but I'd expect a "modern" Joel test to have questions like:
- Do you use CI? - Do you deploy changes individually? - Is your code coverage > (some amount)
This might be, but there are a whole lot of companies in the world that can't even make table stakes.
For example, if you were writing the list today "do you make daily builds" would probably have updated to "do you build and test every merge into master"