How can something not be a defect in the system, and still be an unquestionable bug from the business side?
It happens often, missing a key functionality not allowing a business process to be completed but a low priority from a developer’s perspective.
But how often a bugfix becomes a bug itself, while not introducing any issues with the fix?
Imagine one situation that is freely based on some past project…
A simple assumption. An action is performed at a given time, so it can be a unique value used for sorting by date. Right?
Gmail developers thought that way, and it seems they were not entirely correct.
On one of the cold nights of the Autumn 2016…
All information about a programming language or a project can’t be stored in one’s head.
By searching, a developer can expand his virtual memory onto anything he can search well.
Quick finding is helpful when developing, and priceless when debugging a critical error from production.
Let’s get started to practices around searching.
One of the most embarrassing things for a professional developer happens when a closed issue for a bug is reported again, and it looks that the bug is still alive.