As I was trying to leave a comment on an interesting entry at Coderific about interview techniques — I happen to like the way we do things at Innova — but their site wouldn’t let me register. It refused my email address.

I don’t know why, but the fact that a site that bills itself as “Employer Ratings for Coders, by Coders” would fail to parse an email address bothered me. I ended up leaving their site and not registering when I couldn’t find a way to report this bug in their software to them.

Now, seeing as how Innova happens to do web development, I’m aware that email address parsing is not an exact science, but they failed on a valid domain name.

Just another reason why good testing is a must in our field.