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Their cost/risk analysis plays out. If the new patch somehow introduced a new bug, it's going to cost them yet another large amount of money to fix it. And if
by yen223 14y ago
Their cost/risk analysis plays out. If the new patch somehow introduced a new bug, it's going to cost them yet another large amount of money to fix it.
And if you say "well just make sure the new patch doesn't break anything, duh!", then you clearly haven't been in software engineering long enough.
- justin66 14y agoI certainly believe it's possible to write and test a patch for a single, well-understood bug and deploy it with a reasonably high degree of confidence that it will not introduce any new issues.