I think we'd be better off as a whole if we could agree on exactly what it was we were trying to get out of software best practices rather than arguing about wh

I think we'd be better off as a whole if we could agree on exactly what it was we were trying to get out of software best practices rather than arguing about what they are. To me, the biggest problem with all software I've ever worked on - since I started programming in 1992 - is how difficult it is to reproduce a scenario that a user reports. Making this as simple as possible seems to me to be an incredibly important as well as relatively straightforward goal, but I have yet to find anybody who agrees further than in principle.