How does your team incorporate engineering units?

[sdaustin]

Originally Posted by hzheng_449

Moreover, the feature seems to be more of a crutch than a solution. Unit confliction can easily be solved with good planning, sanity checks, and testing.

;tldr: we haven't heard of it before, and we probably wont use it since it's easier to code w/o and the issues can be solved with good coding practice

I suggest you research the Mars Climate Orbiter for a good example of how a seemingly obvious bug can slip through the cracks, with catastrophic results, in spite of having some of the best & brightest programmers and most stringent QA processes.