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At my previous work, we attempted to find the correlation between faulty code and the time of commit in the version control. Most bugs were written after 14:00.
by rlkf 9y ago
At my previous work, we attempted to find the correlation between faulty code and the time of commit in the version control. Most bugs were written after 14:00. (And no: we didn't check-in all code at the end of the day).
- agumonkey 9y agoIs there something peculiar around 14:00 beside lunch ?
- jakubp 9y agoA fellow student of mine did a study back in 2005 about this. He found that the worst time to fix a bug was Friday afternoon, as it introduces the most (new) bugs into the code. I see similarities to another area where I have more experience: business meetings. I believe that most people are terrible at meetings held in the afternoon, either due to heavy lunch, or just because it's after 3pm and they are simply tired. A single meeting like this can cause great damage to the individuals and whole teams, measured in intangibles such as motivation, trust, momentum.