On 9 January 2013 01:19, John Day <jeanj...@comcast.net> wrote: [snip] > > One person's gap is another person's bug. What may be obvious to one as > something that must occur may not be so to the other. Then there is that > fine line between what part of the specification is required for the > specification and what part is the environment of the implementation.
Disagree A gap in the specification will result in all implementations having the same unintended behaviour, because the developers understood and followed the spec 100%. Bugs are distinguishable from gaps because they occur in some implementations but not others and arise from misinterpretation of some aspect of the specification. In this context, over-engineering is a bug, as distinct from competitive advantage. Dick --
