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Essentially my answer to your question in your second to last sentence is “yes” when we zoom out to the business level. It doesn’t matter that the physical act
by dangus 4y ago
Essentially my answer to your question in your second to last sentence is “yes” when we zoom out to the business level.
It doesn’t matter that the physical activity taking place is the same, because what the activity is for determines where the company puts the expense on the income statement.
- seadan83 4y agoThat's the point of the article, no? For a business, they can choose if they want to define a bug as "does not work to spec", or "does not work to user expectation" (I believe we agree there, that this is a distinction without a meaningful difference to development) So, for the developer, the activity is the same. Given most software is existing and not green-field, if you extrapolate this idea out further, it implies that feature and maintenance work have a lot more overlap and are fundamentally the same thing for even larger projects /features than just small bug fixes. It raises the question, at what points and when does feature work and maintenance work become distinct activities?