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Quote: Do they also keep track of how many bugs are introduced by the 'fix'? Laugh |
LOL. Since we always tend to do code reviews... We don't get a lot of those.
The one man shop... This is why I keep email notifications off.
Look into a pomodoro timer. Turn the phone on silent (not even virbate), work for 25 minutes ( a cycle ), and then check things when you get out to return calls.
DO NOT let the phone steal your focus... All of our developers are the last people to get a phone call. Focused time is way too precious. Good luck!
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: have nothing except 30+ years of experience telling me this is true. Well I disagree with you, my 30+ years of development tell me that smaller fixes are a natural progression of a maturing project and not a valid measure of competency.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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MyCroft,
So, you have never seen a new programmer tackle a problem in a mature product, and end up creating the next 2-3 bug fix requests? Do you work with new developers much (just curious since we are on the opposite side here of opinion and experiences)
And yes, the title mentions tracking completion (near maturity) by the breadth of changes required in fixes... That's half of it.
I REALLY appreciate your feedback... Thanks!
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: Do you work with new developers much Ah that may be the difference, I work with a very mature team of 5 devs who have been together for some years. I find large changes are generally due to either the business not knowing what they want or a misinterpretation by the developer of the requirements.
Bugs and the time spent nailing them should be a reducing requirement, I do not consider the time spent eliminating bugs as a measurement of competency. If you are getting towards the end of a project and there is a major piece of rework required either you f***ed up or the business f***ed up.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft,
That is clearly a factor in your experience. I think it explains it.
When you work with mainly competent and experience people, you don't have the same types of bugs.
Like something that synchronizes data for a group, that is NOT protected from someone synchronizing their own data while the larger process is running (causing duplicate adds, for example). Just knowing to think in those terms comes from experience. Understanding how long things WILL take in production vs. on your local machine, etc.
Or that they don't notice that if it takes 30 seconds to test one record in a process... How long will it take when the expected HUNDREDS of records hit?
An example of a one line fix was: Don't sync closed items. Massive speed up, as closed items did not really exist in the first implementation, but 2 years later, were the majority of records.
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When my girlfriend tried to make me have sex on the roof of her Honda Civic I refused. If I'm going to have sex, it's going to be on my own Accord.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What's the Mazda with you? I doubt you can a Ford to turn her down - later she might be tired.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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With your Mini you shouldn't be picky and just Ram her
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What ever happened to "not posting stuff you wouldn't want your kid sister to see" herein?
@marc-clifton ???
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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MacSpudster wrote: What ever happened to "not posting stuff you wouldn't want your kid sister to see" herein?
Can't speak for the other guys, but I for one do not have a sister.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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MacSpudster wrote: not posting stuff you wouldn't want your kid sister to see
That won't get you very far in my family. I have three sisters younger than me. All have heard (and sometimes use) the "seven words that should never be heard on television".
I do agree that this was a little over the line for the Lounge.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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True story: When my father-in-law passed away several years ago, he had left his Honda Accord to his eldest daughter. For the month (June) before she could arrange to come get it, it was parked in our driveway. One particularly hot afternoon, the wife had arrived home from a trip so I walked out to welcome her home and carry the bags. As we passed the car, she pointed to the ground behind the car where the chrome model placard lay and asked what happened. I said very dryly 'it appears to have fallen off of it's own Accord.'
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Equally true story: My first new car was a 1985 Accord. My wife and I were driving to see her family, and passed the exit to Marysville(*), Ohio. I told Mrs. Wife "Be careful; the car might take that exit of its own Accord."
(*) Accords were built in Marysville at the time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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But the important question...how many seconds until she got it?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Not many - the lady's pretty sharp.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's much better whilst laying out on the Riviera.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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If herself finds out about your girlfriend, you'll be sleeping in your Accord.
C4H10S
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Or even worse C9H9N ...
Otherwise known as 3-Methylindole, or "Skatole" - it's the chemical that makes pooh smell of ... well, pooh.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's nothing; I smell C9H9N (Skatole) almost every time I go to "The Weird and The Wonderful".
EDIT: I just saw that you had the name of the chemical and its smell in micro-print.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 2-Jun-18 16:05pm.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: C4H10S n-Butyl mercaptan?
Seems you've been working in the skunk-works just a bit too long.
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Me? I've never been anywhere near Lockheed, and I was in disguise, and it wasn't me; it was my evil twin.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I buy only Toyotas, and I'm afraid I'd have to do it with a damn Corolla.
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I heard, on Facebook so it must be true, that SUV meant Sex Under Vehicle but don't see how that would work?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Because that's how the drivers were conceived?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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For those of you old enough to remember the 70's ad line.
Maybe you 'got some head on a Honda.'
I can still hear the tune.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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