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This and other posts have a very negative tone about the state of software development, as if the developers are stupid or lazy for not fixing annoying bugs. A
by brokencode 6y ago
This and other posts have a very negative tone about the state of software development, as if the developers are stupid or lazy for not fixing annoying bugs.
As a developer myself, I can say that this kind of thing is usually the result of the developers being under immense pressure to finish an important project, leaving them no time or energy to even think about minor or moderately annoying bugs unless customers start pulling out their pitchforks.
- ptmcc 6y agoYup, my team has a backlog of hundreds of bugs, perf issues, and technical debt that we developers would love to spend months digging into and fixing. There's a high likelihood we already know about any given bug that gets filed. But that's not what product & business prioritize, so it's not what we do. Occasionally we get thrown a bone and have a "quality week" which is laughable. And this is at a respected company you've probably heard of and used. It's even worse at the smaller companies I've been at.
- brokencode 6y agoIt’s all about prioritization. What will our customers be more upset about if we don’t do? You can lessen the problem by reducing your scope or hiring more developers (with caveats), but at the end of the day, a single developer can only do so much work, no matter how competent and motivated they are.