There’s a saying “Where there’s one bug, there’s two.” Don’t stop looking because you have found a problem. Chances are excellent that there is another one nearby.
This weekend marks a historic moment for our product conjectPM – we’ve moved from complex object permissions (about 10 different permissions) to simple permissions (read, write, full access). This turned out to be a project, as we had been developing on this for 4 iterations now (1 iteration = 2 weeks).
We were careful not to underestimate this endeavour, as it resembles open brain surgery on a patient. We have had over one week of testing (initial internal tests found over 30 bugs), including tests of the migrated data.
Monday will be the moment of truth, as that’s the go-live for thousands of users…
Our support team, who are very critical testers, have been confident. No matter how many cases you test and how much test automation you can put in place, you can rely on the gut feeling of these guys. >> more…
Here’s a collection of funny code comments I ran into: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618
Our claim is to have self-explanatory code, so we hardly need comments… although some of these are really hilarious!
As the Issue Manager – a liaison position between our tech support and development – you always discover interesting constellations under which Java applets that our web application uses simply won’t run. A bunch of customers with Internet Explorer 7 or 8 could not launch any of our applets, although other applets worked perfectly fine for them.
Internet research yielded no similar experiences this far, so hopefully this one will help if you are facing the same issues… the message is: keep your system clean!
These were the tests I ran:
Recently we discovered that our tool that creates digital archives (copies of online project rooms) had a couple of minor bugs, which we are currently fixing. They turned up on account of the fact that linux file systems can hack almost anything, whereas Windows’ file and folder name conventions are prehistoric – think Win 3.1.
Seat belts fastened? Did you know that you cannot have folder names with a trailing space? Dots “.” at the end of file names aren’t permitted, either. Same for any \/*<>?:”| chars in your file/folder names. To top it up, the maximum path length permitted is 255 characters. >> more…
