QUESTION : How can you re-write the questions of the Joel test to apply to web d

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QUESTION: How can you re-write the questions of the Joel test to apply to web developers?

1. Do you use source control?
(source control for all aspects of your app, including configuration, database and user-based settings?)

2. Can you make a build in one step?
(can you deploy a site from staging to prod in 1 step?)
...
10. Do you have testers?
(how do you test AJAX and CSS?)

BACKGROUND: This is for people who work in a shop that does some web development but also uses some off-the-shelf tools like Drupal and Wordpress, but doing custom development on top of that.

Explanation / Answer

I think you misunderstood the Joel test. Joel test is not about products, languages and technologies used. It's about the workflow and the working conditions of the developers.

For example, the five points in the answer above has nothing to do with Joel test. It's not because the company's website is not written in valid XHTML that their developers have no decent working conditions.

The difference may be subtle, but there is a difference. For example in a company working with .NET technologies, it doesn't matter if it's Visual Basic or C# or F#. It's not a working condition

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