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It's a lot harder to demonstrate how the value added by improving stability. Like, what's the difference between 99.93% availability and 99.95% availability? Ho
by dhagz 7y ago
It's a lot harder to demonstrate how the value added by improving stability. Like, what's the difference between 99.93% availability and 99.95% availability? How do you show that increasing test coverage by 5% helps users and brings value to the company?
"Hey, so you know how our application is pretty much always working, but will error out once every other blue moon? It does that less now," doesn't sound as flashy as "Look at this thing our app does that it didn't do before!"
- dmitrygr 7y ago> what's the difference between 99.93% availability and 99.95% availability? Quite literally a 40% reduction in crashes
- saimiam 7y ago> 40% A little over 28% since it is a 0’02 reduction over 0’07 non-availability rate.
- CamperBob2 7y agoAs so many people have pointed out in this thread, though, crashes are far from the only thing that can keep a user from being able to take advantage of a given feature.
- pfranz 7y agoA few years ago I heard people talking about Apple over-metric-ing. I think even Tim Cook was touting how few kernel panics and crashes there were in modern macOS. They had been tracking crashes and putting effort to reduce them. However, the the new tallest poppy were bugs without metrics, like unexpected behaviors, performance regressions, etc.