On 09/04/2006, at 6:23, Garrett Hylltun wrote:
The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any
error in his code at all. The code works as it was intended.
You could also claim that if a user in Japan downloaded the program
and could not read it because it was in English and not Japanese,
that he could say that the program has a bug.
Or a Linux user downloaded the Windows version, it would not run,
so it must be a bug.
Your scenario is lacking completely, and rather a petty attempt to
push your belief.
Garrett
Thank you for the ad hominem attack in your last line. Mark has
already disposed of your prior argument that there is no bug
("programmer's intention") so I will not elaborate on his concise
statement. For your further enlightenment here is a set categories of
bugs:
- Requirements defects
- Design defects
- Source code defects
- User documentation defects
- "Bad fixes", or secondary defects found in repairs to prior defects
[source: Capers-Jones, "Applied Software Measurement"]
Your attempt to dismiss the basis of the single coding example I used
seems rather an attempt to avoid the three conclusions I drew.
- bugs happen, even when they are sincerely believed not to exist
and with the best will in the world, and testing which seemed
comprehensive at the time;
- money matters in commercial decisions without greed per se being
a factor;
- the morality of the developer is not questioned by the discovered
bug.
I will not discuss these further here with you because I see no point
to it. I expect that great majority of developers would take these
points as self-evident. If you wish to evangelise your position of
bug-free heaven where commerce does not exist, write to me privately.
Better still, write to someone else.
Where you have an actual bug of any category, post it to support or
with Revzilla
David
-Garrett
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