From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c473e498c84938dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Orders of Fault Management Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:38:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2mnr9kFnpbivU1@uni-berlin.de> <410796AE.2080800@noplace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ZXoHZI6Nmf9CJJvl5rwDFQHbR5CLndsyz4VtyNHiHN43T7MQU= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2663 Date: 2004-08-11T10:38:01+02:00 List-Id: 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