Garrett- Thursday, April 6, 2006, 5:42:29 PM, you wrote:
> How can someone sleep at night knowing they've release software with > bugs in it? Don't you feel guilty about it? ROTFL. Let me interrupt an otherwise wonderful rant in progress with the following: As a QA engineer, I'd love to find some bug-free software someday. Doesn't exist. Bug-free is code-free. In reality, somebody has to make the hard decision with any piece of software about where to draw the line as far as which bugs *must* get fixed before this release ships and which can be punted until the next point release. The decision itself can be argued forwards and backwards, but that's a different issue from saying that software can't be shipped until *all* the bugs are out. I sometimes joke that my job in QA is to "prevent products from shipping", but the reality is that the inherent push-and-pull between QA and, well, everyone else, is aimed at reaching the decision point that results in the best possible product shipping *at that time*. This is not to say that there aren't some *major* bugs in rev which IMO need to be addressed immediately (especially the ones I've written up myself, of course), but if you wait for a bug-free product you might as well be waiting for a bug-free <enter your OS of choice>. Or a final Project Xanadu or something. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
