Re: Just random fixes with QC reports...

>> I think it is totally unrealistic, provided modern development and
>> design methods are used from ground up.
>> The complexity of an application is uninteresting, because you use
>> modern design methods just to avoid such long lasting bug hunts that
>> you describe, normally by separating as much as possible into closed
>> entities, and by employing test driven development methods.
>
> Adhering to best practices does not bestow omniscience. No matter how good
> the design, objects need to perform processes and need to interact with
> other objects, and thus there are dependencies. Depending on the location
> and nature of a bug, a fix to it can have consequences on the dependent
> objects, and should that require a change to them then further
> dependencies come into play.
>
> Best practices certainly *reduce* the chances of these kinds of problems,
> it cannot eliminate them.

Ok. But they are extremely rare. So why point them out. If they do have one
of these, I agree that it is better for them to remove the other bugs
instead and try giving a workaround instead for the problemcase.


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