From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Orders of Fault Management
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:38:01 +0200
Date: 2004-08-11T10:38:01+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x55d3nmqq969$.1v254vk9im0dp.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UFhSc.106580$8_6.69647@attbi_s04
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:56:21 GMT, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:06:13 GMT, Marin David Condic wrote:
>>
>>>Also, a "bug" may not truly stop a software application from
>>>accomplishing its purpose.
>>
>> Which is probably not a bug then. (:-))
>
> No, there are things that everyone would agree are bugs, but just don't
> effect the usability of an application. For example, if it has an
> error message with a miss-spelled word ("Fiel not found"), that's a real
> bug, but it may not be economically worth the effort to fix it.
It depends on whether the requirement was to bring up *an* or *the* error
message. One of our programmers customary uses obscene language in all
message boxes, which should never appear. Unfortunately they do! (:-))
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-27 20:12 Orders of Fault Management Marc A. Criley
2004-07-28 12:06 ` Marin David Condic
2004-07-28 13:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-28 14:14 ` Puckdropper
2004-07-29 12:46 ` Marin David Condic
2004-08-11 4:56 ` Mark A. Biggar
2004-08-11 8:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2004-08-11 11:49 ` Marin David Condic
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