Stop Calling Them Defects
@ 2007-07-20 20:29:40
Filed under: Code Frustration Tech
I know it's a fad ... but it's a frustrating one. The term reminds me of what happens in manufacturing when a product has a known defect or defects but it's still released. This is my bias as a Release Engineer but that is very scary. I also know that the methodology that has been pushing the term believes that they can decrease issues thus no longer having bugs that need to be fixed. Silliness. The reality that the business wants results faster, more incremental development, and done as cheaply as possible (and I mean CHEAP!) means that such results are near impossible. Just the other day in a friends project (which has quite a few folks working on it) someone hard coded some configurable data. The leaders in the project did not consider this a defect as it did not break anything. It did have to be fixed though as it made other deployments of the code do improper things. I would call this a bug. Defective people call that extreme.
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Filed under: Code Frustration Tech
I know it's a fad ... but it's a frustrating one. The term reminds me of what happens in manufacturing when a product has a known defect or defects but it's still released. This is my bias as a Release Engineer but that is very scary. I also know that the methodology that has been pushing the term believes that they can decrease issues thus no longer having bugs that need to be fixed. Silliness. The reality that the business wants results faster, more incremental development, and done as cheaply as possible (and I mean CHEAP!) means that such results are near impossible. Just the other day in a friends project (which has quite a few folks working on it) someone hard coded some configurable data. The leaders in the project did not consider this a defect as it did not break anything. It did have to be fixed though as it made other deployments of the code do improper things. I would call this a bug. Defective people call that extreme.
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